Those of you who have been hanging out here for awhile have probably already met my dear friend Bruce Dolin. Not only is Bruce a husband, father of two sons (at least one of whom “is able to use an electric hand-dryer”*), clinical psychologist, former director and screenwriter, blogger, and the author of my all-time favorite [...]
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My mother held me in the passenger seat of a green Chevy Citation as my dad drove from the hospital to the yellow Connecticut colonial where I would roller skate in the basement and dress as Strawberry Shortcake for Halloween, my breath hot under the plastic mask. Where I would wear a brown plaid Catholic [...]
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It was a summertime ritual: after dinner on a hot, humid evening, we’d pile into the Buick and wind our way up the road and down a hill to the Dairy Queen, the backs of our skinny, shorts-clad legs sticking to the vinyl seat. Once we arrived, I’d wait in line with my mom while [...]
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We all know the story of the tortoise and the hare: A rabbit challenges a turtle to a race. Having left the slow-moving turtle in his dust, the overconfident rabbit decides to take a nap in the middle of the course, but wakes to find that his slow-but-steady opponent has won the race while he [...]
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