11/8/2012 5:00 AM
So the brilliant people of Colorado and Washington Tuesday voted to legalize the recreational use of marijuana.
This comes at the same time that a National Academy ...
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11/1/2012 12:00 AM
My grandson Ethan and I sat down to watch the Oklahoma-Kansas football game a couple weeks ago, and were shocked to find that my DirectTV satellite setup with a gazillion ...
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10/25/2012 6:00 AM
Some time between birth and the inevitable cynicism of the school yard years, children pass through an age when reality has not yet been nailed down to a firm scientific ...
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10/19/2012 11:32 AM
Trying babysitting for a couple of pre-school grandkids for a few hours and you know why people have their kids when they are young. I can’t count the times my wife and ...
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10/11/2012 11:05 AM
Birthdays are a big deal in our family. With six adult kids, 12 grandkids, five sons and daughters in law and assorted girlfriends, it is a rare month when someone in ...
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10/4/2012 12:00 AM
I was raised in a household without a television. No, we weren’t poor, and we didn’t live on the dark side of the moon. We lived in middle class neighborhoods with TV ...
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9/27/2012 1:35 PM
One of the toughest jobs of grandparenting is keeping your mouth shut. Biting your own tongue is painful, but necessary.
When I was raising my own family, ...
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9/20/2012 4:13 PM
When our oldest grandchildren, twin boys, living near Lawrence, Kansas, announced that they were thinking about attending Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, my wife ...
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9/13/2012 12:38 PM
I was chatting this week with Harley Hunter, owner of the Grandfather’s Clock Gallery at 31st and Yale, about the difficulty of staying in touch with his teen-age grandsons.
They ...
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9/6/2012 11:39 AM
When my first son was born several decades ago in Albuquerque, as I was walking down the steps of the hospital, I felt a mantle of responsibility come down on me, almost ...
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8/30/2012 10:52 AM
Never trust anyone who says they like growing old. As the cliche says, they’ll lie about other things too.
But for my wife and I, getting older held one unexpected ...
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8/23/2012 10:35 AM
There’s no smile quite like the smile of a young grandson reeling in his first fish of the summer.
My son Luke and I took our families this summer to one of Minnesota’s ...
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