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Monthly Archives: September 2009

Old Dog, New Trick

Monday, September 21, 2009

My 14 year-old son and his sisters have been on skis since they were toddlers, but my son decided at an early age that he’d become a snowboarder. I was proud and a not a little awed to see him, at age 6, take off into the terrain garden at Alyeska on his $40 plastic [...]

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Ripped in Pieces

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Today was Picture Day at the elementary school. Picture Day is that special day, each year, when kids come to school in their nicest fanciest clothes, shirts buttoned all the way up to the collar, hair just so. They get herded down to the place where the photographer invites them to choose their background color, [...]

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