From the monthly archives:

June 2010

The Graduate

June 26, 2010
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Peter

June 12, 2010

He was the second youngest of five children, or at least he was, when I started babysitting for his family.
He was a skinny kid, with brown hair. He was only 4 years old and he sometimes got lost in the shuffle of the busy household. His older siblings — the eldest was 11, the others [...]

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Not Fancy

June 6, 2010

The yard could only be described as pastoral.
Children of all ages ran around the verdant grassy stretch behind the white house, its full back porch decorated with bronze butterflies and a string of lights. Cozy rattan couches invited guests to sit and relax, and the two — two! — wooden play structures snuggled into a [...]

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The Obligatory “They Took Down My Ads” Post

June 3, 2010

So.
I went home for a spell, back to the land of Wegmans and the Great Lakes. I even took the children by myself on an airplane, which is akin to committing ritualistic suicide using a hot poker and rubbing alcohol.
But we made it, there and back. The kids were rock stars and ate up all [...]

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