I was at a philosophy conference in Portland a few years ago, and just outside of a session room a woman speaking with a few colleagues started choking on her cough drop. A couple of people tried to give her the Heimlich Maneuver, but they were too short to get any leverage: she was tall,…
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The Magic Is Real
We took Erin to Disneyland for her fourth birthday. Is anyone surprised by this?There were so many special moments of special specialness that I’m afraid I will forget all of them. It all began with a dress. It was a dress Erin didn’t want to take off for the three days we spent at the…
And the Winner of Backpacking Dad’s Mystery Prize Giveaway is my Chick Lit Editor!
Using Random.org I have generated a winning entry number from the, I believe, 56 total entries in Backpacking Dad’s Mystery Prize Giveaway. I had to do some extra counting, since there were a couple of non-entries (just comments without guesses) and a couple of supporting entries (referrals that garnered an extra entry for the referrer),…