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Curses on you, Croup!
I sleep between two fevers
Barking baby seals
 
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******I just wanted to add, for those of you waiting for an update on this fiasco, that the blog has finally been removed from the website [...]

I love this picture. I think it’s both hysterical and oddly artsy.

I found this new online magazine recently, Sekund, which focuses on parenting the second time around, ie. when you go from one kid to two (”Second”). I’ll have an essay in the May issue, coming out some time this month, so my [...]

So I think I’m going to be all daring and try and write a book. For quite some time, since the days where I taught in a middle school, I’ve had an idea for a novel for young audiences. I never really got anywhere with it, some character names and a written and [...]

In the great windy city
There was a Picasso
and a park by Gehry
and a pizza that
was stuffed with pepperoni.
And there were Chicago Bears
and a tower called Sears
and lots of police
and buildings by Mies
and pretty street blocks
and a team with white Sox
and the Cubs
and the El
and a Beluga whale
and a bad old governor who was going to [...]