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I Once Tried to Get Rich Placing Tiny Classified Ads

Posted on 10/04/2011 by Backpacking Dad

Do you remember being awake in the middle of the night at the turn of the millennium? You’d watch infomercials promising riches from unclaimed tax refunds and real estate buys with no investment. I’d watch Don Lapre tell his “from my one-bedroom apartment” story of wealth built on placing classified ads in the newspaper. (For…

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Heckler

Posted on 09/01/2011 by Backpacking Dad

Erin, ever-performing, took a couple of hostages at the playground. A brother and sister team, four or five years old, sat on the bark chip floor in front of a playset as Erin clambered to the top. She lounged on it like it was a piano and she was wearing a glittering gown, and she…

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I’m Going to Change My Name to BusyDad, Because I’ve Been So Busy

Posted on 08/21/2011 by Backpacking Dad

I’ve done a crazy amount of writing this week. You probably didn’t read it, because I just kept posting, posting, posting. I was also linking, linking, linking. It was annoying, oying, oying. In case you missed/ignored/disbelieved what I claimed to be up to, here is a list-style post about my online activities this week. First,…

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