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Are You Trying to Find Work-Life Balance? That’s So Dumb.

Posted on 03/06/2012 by Backpacking Dad

I’ve been working a lot lately. But I am in no way trying to find work-life balance. “Anyway, the point of all of this preliminary stuff was to get to my discovery, yanked from my brain in the middle of wondering if any of the changes are worth it: Work-life balance is stupid. Who wants…

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Say it, Frenchie!

Posted on 11/12/201111/12/2011 by Backpacking Dad

As Erin approaches kindergarten age, we have begun our shopping of area schools. Today’s visit was to a French immersion K-8. Erin now says she wants to go there, because she wants to learn to speak French. All I could think of the whole time I was there was “chow-dare”.   Being Canadian from eastern…

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Even Your Honor Student Gets Wasted

Posted on 09/30/201109/30/2011 by Backpacking Dad

Something happened between fifteen and sixteen. My friends and I, often gathering to play Dungeons & Dragons and play terrible songs in our “band”, graduated from buying hot gingerale at the A & P and challenging each other to chug entire bottles of the eye-watering sodas, to sneaking sips and shots from the liquor cabinet….

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