“On a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being, ‘This is the best day of my life,’ how excited are you for the Shark Dive?” I asked Sophie as we were driving for an early lunch at Chick-fil-A.
Sophie thought about her answer just long enough ...
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Family
September 8, 2020
I don’t really memorize anymore.
As a kid, I used to have the phone numbers of all of my friends memorized, along with random statistics of Royals players and various MLB league leaders. At one point, I had all the presidents ...
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The Living Art of Sophie
Sophie’s first breath took my breath away.
As she entered this bright and big world just a few miles
west of Kauffman Stadium, Sophie took a deep breath of amniotic fluid. I cut
the umbilical cord at the doctor’s instruction and he ...
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Happy Anniversary
Marriage is:
one apartment eviction notice and a one hundred days of one hundred degrees adventure
two amazingly creative children in the midst of two Masters degree programs
nursing me back to health following three surgeries — ...
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