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New Rule: If they tee off on you, you can take their head off

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Still trying to absorb the unwritten rules of boxing. Earlier in the week I was sparring in an unfamiliar gym, and I got in the ring with one woman I didn’t know and had not seen box before. We were not a good match (she outweighed me by a good margin and was less experienced), [...]

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Why Boxers Can’t Lie

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It’s just as easy to talk a big game as it is to wear baggy clothes to disguise an extra 10 pounds or cheat off somone else’s paper in high school. In the business world, execs know how to assign work to underlings and take all the credit if their efforts bring success. But boxers [...]

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Disco Balls and Jesus

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I don’t know why we never tried a normal nightlight. Maybe we did, and it wasn’t adequately addressing our boys’ collective fear of the dark combined with a tremendous reluctance to go to bed. But I noticed one Christmas how hypnotic we all found the scattered stars thrown from a mirrored-ball ornament. After Christmas I [...]

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The Pink Pantsuit

Photo by vertcerise on Flickr When I was about eight years old my great-grandmother gave me a pink pantsuit that she had lovingly sewn by hand just for me; it was a cotton-synthetic mix, required no ironing, and was precisely the color of a cat’s tongue. I was in a private elementary school and in [...]

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The Maker’s Pocket Contents

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Second Chance Card

Today is just one of those days; too much to do and not enough resources to get everything done. I was cranky and worried and I told several people in vivid and eloquent terms that I felt like cat yak, once right before we went through the buffet line at lunch (which may have put [...]

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not full: the revelation

Today I took the boys to Chick-Fil-A for lunch. We already have a “no sodas” policy but since the Maker is just coming off a stomach virus I told all three boys in the car before we got there that none of us would have french fries, either. So when we arrived, I asked each [...]

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nice things the Husband says

#87Me: Did I keep you up all night with my coughing?The Husband: I didn’t hear a thing. #48Me: Can you believe that woman’s outfit? How could she wear a skirt that short in public?The Husband: What woman? #103Me: Whew! Sigourney Weaver is hot in Aliens.The Husband: She’s pretty, but she’s a little too skinny for [...]

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marshmallow butt

My most embarrassing moment occurred the year I was thirteen, a time of near-lethal potential for MEM’s for girls. I like to call this moment, which is now recorded for all the world to appreciate, The Marshmallow Butt Incident. In the 70′s, quad roller skating was the hotness. I was one of those kids in [...]

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How True Love Works

When I was in elementary school I walked to the nearby library every day after school, where I waited until one of my parents could pick me up. As a result, I was conscripted as a library volunteer, shelving books. While I loved to read, I hated to shelve. The fact that every book had [...]

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