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Buy This Vacuum

Posted on 12/03/2008 by Backpacking Dad

I still can’t quite believe that it ever happened. I kind of remember the flight to JFK, and walking around New York, and taking my shirt off a couple of times in what they assured me was a photographer’s studio. My surreal memories notwithstanding I have confirmation that I really did go to New York…

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A Speech (shelved)

Posted on 11/30/2008 by Backpacking Dad

"When you disparage, demean, trivialize, mock, or patronize the parenting of fathers, whether from afar or in the very act of their parenting, you are resuscitating the stilling world of damaged gender role stereotyping that ought to vanish into history. Ma’am, respect male parents as parents, refrain from the cheap humour made available by our…

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It was unexpectedly good

Posted on 11/25/2008 by Backpacking Dad

The four tween girls blocking the theater door, giggling, and dancing over the threshold in some weird game that only makes sense to tween girls should have been my omen: I had made the choice that was bound to make me the most uncomfortable. Earlier in the day I had announced my boredom with Holocaust…

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