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Spring, Global Warming, Wear Your Helmet
ByChrisIn the movie Groundhog Day, a well-dressed, portly man approaches Bill Murray’s character in the hallways of a B&B and asks, “Think it’ll be an early Spring?” Bill Murray says, “I’m predicting March 21st.” Spring got an early start in Oregon this year. Owing to our near absence of winter. No one told the white…
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The Rush to Get Out Into the Snow
ByChrisHe seems too big to be my baby boy, yet still so small for someone who will one day be a man as big as I. Little hands fill tiny mittens. Growing feet squeeze into small blue boots. My hat. His gone missing in the rush to get out into the snow. His sister watches…
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T-Rex eats fox, or vice versa: Imagination and HOW THINGS ARE
ByChris“Dad, I’m a T-Rex and you are a tiny baby fox.” I fear he has stacked the odds heavily in his favor. Although, you never can tell. In his land of imagination polar bears still eat seals, yes. Just the same, sometimes seals go out on the ice floes hunting polar bears. What follows is a…
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Unboxing Joy
ByChrisMy daughter hovers beside me while I tear into the cardboard box. I see the books I ordered while she sees something different. “Bubbles!” she says. I hand her lengths of clear, plastic packing material from around my books and she hurries out of the kitchen to the bathroom. She shuts the door and explosions…
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Eating the House
ByChris“Is her house made out of gingerbread?” “What?” In hindsight, I can see how my question might have confused Heather. “In Hansel and Gretel. Is the witch’s house made of gingerbread? Do they eat it?” “I don’t remember them eating the house.” The thing about fairy tales is they can start to blur together. We…
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Appreciate and Initiate
ByChrisThursday. April 21st, 2016 A pretty nondescript Thursday from my perspective. Only a couple things on the calendar: Take Jakey to preschool. Teach Lifeguarding class. Then other work. The business of relating to people, recruiting, accounting, taking delivery of huge pieces of pool equipment. I like days like this with a wide swath of open…
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