It all started with my nephew at a family dinner. We were grilling him about a kid his age, someone we vaguely knew. “He’s an OK guy,” offered Collin, chewing his burger. “But he cheats at dodgeball.” Instantly, we all got it. From that moment on, how you played dodgeball became our family’s insider character test. Since my Ked-clad camp days, ...
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July 2012
The local berry farm closed a few years ago. That was a sad day for me. The farmer’s kids didn’t have the desire to keep up the family land that had for so long produced juicy strawberries in late June and then perfectly honeycombed raspberries (purple and red) right on their tail. In late July, there’d ...
Several thousand of us thundered to our feet for the national anthem at a recent college graduation. Predictably, these types of events are choked with the emotion of life’s passages. I had been observing parents on the bleachers hugging family members and wincing back tears. The graduates on the field, roasting in dark caps and gowns, ...