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Feel-Good Case of Politics
The depressing thing about the presidential election being a personality contest is the personalities available.
Jul 24
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June 2024
The Nanny and Pool of Buoyant Attention
I saw a nanny get in the pool with a toddler during swim lessons while the able-bodied mother watched from the bench. It seemed like a peculiar setup to…
Jun 23
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May 2024
Brisket Dry Rub
My wife clearly loves me because she gave conditional permission to write about this. I assumed the topic was off-limits, and I’d have to fake something…
May 27
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April 2024
Harboring but not Suppressing Feelings About Mortality
It’s been a weird month. I’m a little burned out and not confident I can describe it well. Back in my ad agency days, a star copywriter shared a helpful…
Apr 26
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March 2024
Sophomoric Trajectories to the Moon
I used to email strangers for a living, so I try to respond to any sent by hand even if it’s templated from a recruiter. This A.I. obsession is going to…
Mar 28
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February 2024
Silent But Detrimental
I love my sons so much I don’t know what to do. Consider this a stretch bizarre analogy, but it’s like when I farted silently in my cubicle at a summer…
Feb 20
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January 2024
Nonretractable Roof of Expectations
My law professor friend told me 1L’s (first-year students barely old enough to buy a drink) at his school are getting job offers for $230-something…
Jan 16
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December 2023
Cutting off the Jee-Jee for Temperance
Even though I’m closer in age to Colonel Sanders than a spring chicken, I still field comments about having a third child, ostensibly made in jest but…
Dec 24, 2023
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November 2023
Michael and Us
We made it. My wife and I lived with our two needy kids and my two nagging parents for about 400 days in my childhood home in Plano, Texas. She wants…
Nov 22, 2023
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October 2023
A Scary Month for Fitzjerry
Holy mother fffff…ederal funds rate, we locked our mortgage at 7.999 percent. Our monthly payment, just principal and interest, is $4,870. With taxes…
Oct 28, 2023
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September 2023
House Divided by 30
My wife skillfully redirected a simmering fight by calling me the “yin to her yang”, which she later described as extending an olive branch. It hit a…
Sep 28, 2023
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August 2023
Three Single Days
I was left alone with my two children, combined age 5, for 72 hours. It wasn’t too bad because I had the lowest expectations and surrendered all…
Aug 24, 2023
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