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"Submit to gossip and you kill it; fight it and you make it strong."
This advice from Uncle George Amberson comes at least an hour too late to the impetuous Georgie Amberson Minafer. I take back my earlier comment that I can’t see Georgie as domineering, since h… more →
Following Pulitzer
I wonder if some people have never even been in a library.
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wrote 1 month ago: So once again it’s time to blog about a comment made over at Awful Library Books. This time it … more →
Infantilization, Part Two
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wrote 2 months ago: [This is] where Cuddle Parties come in. For the uninitiated, these are basically pajama parties wher … more →
Infantilization
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wrote 3 months ago: These are largely anecdotal, but I can’t help but feel that American adults are becoming more … more →
"Submit to gossip and you kill it; fight it and you make it strong."
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wrote 4 months ago: This advice from Uncle George Amberson comes at least an hour too late to the impetuous Georgie Ambe … more →
"And since the primordial day when caste or heritage first set one person, in his own esteem, above his fellow-beings, it is to be doubted if anybody ever felt more illustrious, or more negligently grand, than George Amberson Minafer felt at this party."
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wrote 4 months ago: George Amberson Minafer, only grandchild of the old Major, is even more thoroughly unpleasant than t … more →
1918: His Family, by Ernest Poole
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wrote 4 months ago: I’d like these reviews to take on a sort of regular structure over time, but as yet I’m … more →
"Mankind had suddenly unmasked and shown itself for what it was--still only a precocious child..."
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wrote 4 months ago: “…And the picture rose in his mind of a child, standing there of giant’s size with … more →
"I was thinking of hungry people..."
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wrote 4 months ago: “…Hungry, oh, for everything–life, its beauty, all it means. And I was thinking th … more →
It's time to grow up
wrote 5 months ago: It’s time to grow up. After 30 you don’t get a pass anymore. You’re grown and if y … more →
Juvenile behavior
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wrote 6 months ago: There is nothing worse than a grown man or woman that acts like a child. Children call people names … more →
The Worst 2 Hours of My Life (So Far)
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wrote 7 months ago: So yesterday I met up with this guy that I met a year ago. When we first met, I don’t really k … more →
Microsoft: still not playing nice
wrote 8 months ago: I upgraded my Lenovo S10 netbook to Windows 7 RC 1 today (I turned it into a dual boot Windows / Ubu … more →
Weird Things
wrote 8 months ago: An assortment of oddness that has happened so far: ~After accruing a few blisters I had changed my w … more →
Doubleplus ungood...I mean not. Maybe.
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wrote 9 months ago: There is reason for having a Spring Break. Working breakfast at the dining center this morning was p … more →
65. Discernment
wrote 10 months ago: The parent’s first priority with children is to discern the difference between immaturity and rebell … more →
I've heard that chasing dogma can wear out your karma...
wrote 10 months ago: Like any school of thought, Zen can become pretty dogmatic. What was once a nice way for some peopl … more →
Child abuse
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wrote 11 months ago: It continues to intrigue me — the biblical point Obama raised in his inauguration speech on pu … more →
Update: Husband and Father
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wrote 11 months ago: About The Husband: OK, here’s the thing. I’m still alive and that’s a huge plus. … more →
BIG GARDEN BIRDWATCH
wrote 11 months ago: Given that at least one of us is a six-year-old, the wolfling and I completed an hour-long avian obs … more →
