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Mommy, your getting fat!

November 21st, 2007 · No Comments

I know I usually do a Thursday post lately about a childhood story, but since I’ll be at my parents house this weekend and largely without internet access, I figure I’ll grace you all today with one. Also, I apologize if I don’t email you back after post a comment, my ISP is being […]

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Tags: As A Child · General

I had a pet duck.

November 15th, 2007 · 5 Comments

My house growing up was in, what was then, the middle of nowhere. Well, that’s not entirely accurate. You see, I lived on a street with about 20 houses on about a third of a mile. The surrounding 10 miles consisted of corn fields, pig farms, and forest. Of course there […]

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Tags: As A Child · Family Issues · General

Climbing Everest

November 8th, 2007 · 1 Comment

I was a little monkey when I was growing up. Like, literally. I even to this day have freakishly long digits on my feet that aided me in climbing when I was a youngster. It didn’t matter what it was either. Cabinets? Those were like a small hill. A […]

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As a child, I liked my huck.

November 1st, 2007 · 1 Comment

Welcome to my personal kickoff of NaBloPoMo!. Somehow I doubt I’ll be able to keep up with the demands of at least one entry per day…but we’ll try.
To really set the tone I’m going to try to start a new regular feature here, and if you guys are interested in me keeping it going […]

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Tags: As A Child · Funny · General

A Walkmen. A Pair of Roller Skates. A Hill. A Story.

October 23rd, 2007 · 1 Comment

Awww yeah, we’re gonna go WAY back. Back in the Day. (Ok, so no one really NEEDED a quote from an Ahmad song, but if you know the song, gold star for you!).
Let me set the scene, it was a warm morning on July 30th, 1990. With the 80s barely in hindsight, […]

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