2/12/2013 4:05 PM
Not sure if my kids are historically aware enough to have a favorite president yet, but I’m making a big plug for Abraham Lincoln. My father-in-law, World War II and ...
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1/25/2013 10:34 AM
The bottom of the Sports Illustrated cover plaintively asked, “What just happened?”
The question revolved around the recent revelations involving cyclist Lance Armstrong ...
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1/11/2013 1:29 PM
The highlight to my son’s school day used to happen at lunch. He and his friends would grab his ever-present football out of the locker, head to the playground and get ...
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1/4/2013 1:09 PM
So this Justin Bieber character is coming back to town.
Perhaps I’ve just woke up to the real world, but suddenly I’m aware that the teen idol is returning to the ...
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12/28/2012 3:01 PM
I never realized “Grease” was so, um, dirty until I watched it with my kids.
Old enough to have sat in an Oklahoma City theater watching the John Travolta and Olivia ...
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12/17/2012 1:41 PM
I dropped my youngest daughter off at school this morning without a thought about that awful moment only three days ago in Connecticut. Certainly parents everywhere harbored ...
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11/30/2012 10:03 AM
I’m known at home as the Grinch Who’d Like to Steal Christmas.
Driven to near madness by financial stress and knowing they call it Black Friday because of the dark ...
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11/23/2012 12:41 PM
By this time Saturday, my son and I will be headed north on U.S. 75 in a rented car. Our travel plans: an overnight stop in Overland Park, Kan., dinner at Buffalo Wild ...
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11/16/2012 12:30 PM
It’s a sad day at our little white house in the double cul-de-sac. We no longer have any trees in our yards.
Truthfully, this last one I don’t mourn so much. We ...
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11/2/2012 1:16 PM
This recent Halloween was scarier in more ways than one.
Maybe it’s small government in action but the streets around our home seemed darker than ever, the lamps few ...
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10/25/2012 1:47 PM
Camping may not be the most popular family past-time, but it should be. Some time ago just about every Walton vacation involved a tent, a Coleman stove, swimwear and ...
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10/5/2012 9:45 AM
Television, television. Thou art my friend and thou art my enemy.
Dutiful parents have a love-hate relationship when it comes to the small screen and their little ...
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