Rory’s Blog
Strong Opinions, Held Loosely
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The Youth Sports Industrial Complex
I’ve been meaning to send this one for several years, and the only reason it’s taken me this long is I know I’m going to eat my words. So there, I said it. This is more cathartic than anything. I don’t pretend to have the answers or even a sound argument. Tomorrow I might disagree…
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When They Love What You Loved
Family movie nights are getting easier now that the boys are six and seven. I could go on about everything that’s wrong with the new cartoons – bad storylines, self-righteous messaging, weak character development, seizure-inducing cinematography – but I’ll save that for another time. We’re not quite ready for Sixteen Candles, Teen Wolf, or Happy Gilmore, but we…
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The Trash Dads
A few weeks ago, if you’d seen the playground at my kids’ school, you’d have assumed someone had emptied a nearby dumpster. Strewn about were candy wrappers, gloves, masks, unfinished homework, calculators, deflated soccer balls, rotting banana peels, and just about anything else you could imagine a child might thoughtlessly toss on the ground at…
