Tag: writing
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The End of People Watching
Airports always used to be a source of entertainment. I remember, as a kid, being excited to see all these interesting strangers going to exotic places: stressed families on a Spring Break trip to Florida, serious business travelers prepping a pitch en route to New York, bachelorettes in cowboy hats drinking their way to Nashville.…
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FanDuel Made Me a Baseball Dad (Sort Of)
Kids have a funny way of dictating your interests, and sometimes even making you compromise your own principles. In my case, a few months ago my son James started playing baseball—a sport I abandoned at age 7, precisely the moment I was asked to hit a ball that was moving. I had actually been an…
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Aging, One Tooth at a Time
“You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.” – Marcus Aurelius I went to the oral surgeon last week to get a wisdom tooth pulled that wasn’t ready to come out when I was 15. I remember the doctor telling me back in 1995, “Someday, this is…
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