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My Side of the Fence: May 2009
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My Side of the Fence. The Grass Looks Pretty Green to Me -. May 30, 2009. Cats and Dogs Living Together. Everyone knows dogs and cats have an adversarial relationship, as if they've been bred to oppose each other in some grand scheme to create domestic balance. When talking about dogs or cats we often frame them each against a backdrop of the other, like Red and Blue states whose stark common borders are defined so clearly by the very character of their intense contrast with each other. May 23, 2009.
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My Side of the Fence: September 2009
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My Side of the Fence. The Grass Looks Pretty Green to Me -. September 12, 2009. As parents, Cristy and I do everything we can to ensure our kids don't hit any unexpected bumps in life's road. Actually, if you extend that analogy a little further. it feels more like we're clearing forest, grading land, and laying down fresh asphalt that is smooth like stretched velvet. Until you hit a speed bump. I had never imagined how true-to-life this analogy was until we took the family hiking this summer. The di...
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My Side of the Fence: June 2009
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My Side of the Fence. The Grass Looks Pretty Green to Me -. June 27, 2009. Last spring we rescued a box turtle from the middle of a two lane country road, his name was Speedbump. Every parent of young kids knows, all things in nature must be owned and named. Turtle ownership set precedent and a whining frenzy ensued. I began to think my kids were planning in earnest for a great flood. Next year". They bit the hook. There was a time early on that I thought our dog, cat, and turtle might unite and go on st...
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My Side of the Fence: October 2009
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My Side of the Fence. The Grass Looks Pretty Green to Me -. October 10, 2009. I found a hand written note on a Post-It in my wallet, it was written to me. The message was cryptic and incomplete, as if the note-leaver assumed I was a mind reader who'd understand its obscure context. I stared at it. I tried my best to interpret. and then I recognized the writing. It was mine. Now if I can just remember to take it with me when I leave the house). Note to self. sell 3M (Post-It) stock and buy Apple shares.
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My Side of the Fence: July 2009
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My Side of the Fence. The Grass Looks Pretty Green to Me -. July 25, 2009. I give my kids play money for doing chores. and they love it! A new currency was recently born in my home and, though it has no real-world value, it is sought after and tightly held. We now operate in a new micro-economy based on (wait for it). "Covey-Bucks". When they beg for everything shiny at Wal-Mart. The rules of our new micro-economy are simple enough:. It is a free market economy but is heavily regulated. There are no ...
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My Side of the Fence: Dear Me
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My Side of the Fence. The Grass Looks Pretty Green to Me -. January 2, 2010. Today, I sent a message to my future self. my Day-After-Thanksgiving 2010 future self, to be precise. It's cold out here and I don't have time for this tangled crap. YOU deal with it! But if history is any guide, he'll be feeling lazy and still shaking off Turkey sedation. He'll curse my name and demand to know why I didn't do my part to make his job easier. And come January 1st, 2011, in a misguided attempt at vigilante...Subsc...
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My Side of the Fence: Conflict Resolution
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My Side of the Fence. The Grass Looks Pretty Green to Me -. November 7, 2009. I have three kids, all very close in age, that are beginning their entry into the "tween" years. Based on my observations so far, this is the stage in development when the Conflicto Gland begins to saturate a young body with Scream-At-Your-Brother hormone. Our home is a complex web of relationships between 13 creatures of various species, many of whom are at each other's throats. With a little understanding, and some coachi...
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My Side of the Fence: April 2009
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My Side of the Fence. The Grass Looks Pretty Green to Me -. April 25, 2009. I joke that when we went dog shopping I took along a carpet sample. We came home with Sally; more than a simple source of hair in our house, she is an adorable Golden Retriever who completes our family. I was headed out the front door recently to shovel the walk after a heavy Spring snow and Sally stopped me at the door. "Can I go, can I go? Down the hill I caught sight of the neighborhood duck (another story) flying low, up the ...
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My Side of the Fence: When Lazy Meets Opportunity
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My Side of the Fence. The Grass Looks Pretty Green to Me -. July 5, 2010. When Lazy Meets Opportunity. Five years ago we moved into a house with an aging, only partially operational, home intercom system. There are speakers in nearly every room but it doesn't operate as an intercom anymore. However, it's built-in FM radio does a great impersonation of a mumbling bumble bee sealed in a tin can. only amplified. In every room simultaneously. It didn't stop there. I am And I'm the help desk. The dungeon empt...
