06 Jul
My Independence Day vacation time hasn’t been all that cool…or at least the early parts of it. After finishing work for the week on Wednesday afternoon, Colleen and I decided to take a little drive off by ourselves for a while. We needed to get out of the house, maybe check out what food trucks […]
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02 Jul
Not a new thing in this space, certainly, but damn, if Carrie Vaughn didn’t just write something I feel like I could’ve written myself: My eyes kind of bug out when anyone talks about wanting to be a kid again, or that high school was the best time of their lives. Being a kid means […]
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01 Jul
From page 112 of Neil Gaiman’s The Ocean at the End of the Lane: I’m going to tell you something important. Grown-ups don’t don’t look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they’re big and thoughtless and they always know what they’re doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when […]
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