Category: general
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Weeds?
The neighbor across the street from my apartment planted some Fox Glove , which some people consider a weed. This is actually a pretty common practice in Germany, where people will plant some flowers right up against their building. Before it started flowering, another neighbor was kidding him about not weeding by his house, and…
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Are emoji ruining communication?*
If you are a close friend of mine, you’ll likely know that I don’t like emoji. I know that I am in the minority opinion on this topic, so I don’t often bring it up, because I don’t foresee it being very useful or making me popular. However, I recently owned up to it at…
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Old year out, new year in
The flipping of the calendar page seems like a good reminder for a bit of reflection and planning. Last year, I made two primary goals for myself, which I am happy to say I achieved. Blog once a week. For this goal, I counted both blog posts here, as well as on my family site,…
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It doesn’t matter to me …
Over the last several years, I have noticed that my kids frequently ask me simple questions or preference, for which I really don’t have an opinion. A good example of this is when we are playing a board game. Dad, which color do you want? I used to reply something like “I don’t care”. But…
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I just wanted to say …
I remember my first year in college, there was a student in one of my classes (this class only had 12 students) who frequently prefixed her comments in class with “this might stupid, but …”, and then went on to say something which most people thought was stupid. In other words, it probably would have…