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Bonus: The Not-So-Funny Valentine
While waiting for my daughters outside their tumbling class one day, I saw a patch of dandelions that had gone to seed. My first thought when I see a…
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The boy is father to the man
What I learned about fatherhood as a child
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In search of simplicity
And how to show a father's love
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How many first-generation students were not the first?
Reading the silences in my grandfather's life
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How sugaring feeds my soul
A natural and cultural history of maple syrup in America
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Learning to live with silence
Notes on grief, fatherhood, and simplicity
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Why gardening is my religion
Mediations on the art as I build a garden fence
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The not-so-funny Valentine
Why men and women feel so differently about practical jokes
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Are the alpha dad and the clown really our only options?
A few words on Dr. Henry McCord
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Do you really lose a book for every child?
The hidden curriculum of the Academy
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