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Monthly Archives: August 2010
Why I Like Station Wagons
Remember way back when child safety seats were for infants only, and not all children under thirteen years of age and 135 pounds? In my last post, I hinted that my mom’s driving might have been a wee bit dangerous. … Continue reading
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Dad’s War on Nature, Part 1
Blogs are about revealing the mind numbing details of childhood, right? Well, buckle up, children, because Daddy’s driving. (Mind numbing detail #1. In my family, it was Mom’s driving that was most likely to kill us.) War rarely begins with … Continue reading
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It’s Karma, Baby!
In my single-digit formative years, I had a friend named Kevin. He was a fun kid, if you define “fun” as walking the line between play and juvenile prosecution, or possibly as exploring the outer limits of childhood guilt. Either … Continue reading
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Another Circle in Life, of the Thigpen Variety
It’s no secret that my parents were not the happiest people on the planet, especially when they were together. One of my mom’s favorite phrases, intended to cover any situation in which my dad backed her into an angry and … Continue reading
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Twenty Years of Procrastination
I’ve spent the last 43 years as a writer in the making. Why? Well, I’ve always been an observer of people and anything else I could wrap my tiny brain around. I was a perfect little (overgrown) angel in school, … Continue reading