Writing

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    Home Again

    I’ve spent at least one night not in my own bed in each of the last nine calendar weeks. I’m now home with no travel scheduled for at least this…

  • More blogging and less social media
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    More blogging and less social media

    Entering 2018, I plan on setting a New Years’ resolution of using social media less, and blogging more. Source: More blogging and less social media The founder of Drupal, a…

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    Peace in 2018

    Today is January 1st, which in the Catholic tradition in the Solemnity for Mary, Mother of God and, since the 1960s, World Day of Peace. Global peace is a hard…

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    The Gift Card Isn’t Quite Enough

    I'm both proud of being so close to the gift card amount and upset at Target for not eating the one cent. They spent more on processing than they gained…

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    Quitting Firefox

    The opposite in fact. I've started using Firefox again and found myself cursing multiple times after hitting Meta-Q and quitting instantly. Chrome had a feature to require me to hold…

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    Merry Christmas!

    I just chugged a glass of soy milk and crammed some cookies in my face when one of the kids woke up to use the bathroom after we set out…

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    Piñatas Are The Tipping Point

    For future reference, the math checks out for a Spanish Mass, Spanish rosary, and Spanish posadas followed by piñatas and cookies to still be "fun" to a six-year old.

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    Mole Fairy

    My mother-in-law walked in, set down a huge container of chicken mole, then left the house. That was pretty amazing.

  • Pharmaceutical Frustrations
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    Pharmaceutical Frustrations

    My daughter has asthma. We've tried over the years to determine a control medication (the stuff you take every day) program that keeps her asthma in check without giving her…

  • 20 Years
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    20 Years

    I’ve struggled with what to write to mark 20 years since my dad died. It’s probably the most common regular topic I’ve written about over the years. Earlier this month,…