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There Is No Wildness In "The Wild Robot"
This past weekend I took my daughter to the movies.
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Are The Alpha Dad and The Clown Really Our Only Options?
There are plenty of bad fathers in literature, such as Tolstoy’s Ivan Ilyich, who are directly cruel or withdraw from family life. There are also many…
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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.
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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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