Time Capsule

Where Were You in ’72? (Happy Birthday Title IX!)

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In 1972 I was learning to play driveway basketball with the older boys across the street who had the only goal on our block. They were tall, fierce, and perfectly willing to outrun, outshoot, and outmanuver me with plenty of grins and laughter. There were two rules: 1. Take the ball out past the end [...]

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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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Boy House Rules

One of the Maker’s self-portraits In 2003 my house was insane. Our boys were 7, 5, and 3. Loud, dirty, and broken was the theme in our little suburban casa. One day after some routine parenting repeating something for the eight thousandth time, I realized I was becoming a rulebot. I began to form this [...]

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Back in the Ring

Back in the Ring from Lisa Creech Bledsoe on Vimeo. Exactly six weeks to the day post rib-fracture I had the chance to get back in the ring. I showed up Sunday about 10:40 am to warm up, and worked out hard until noon. By then several of my team members had arrived and there [...]

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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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Why We Don’t Have a TV

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How long is a moment?

This reads like it was a short conversation, but there were long (5-10 second) pauses between each question and response. * * * The Maker: A moment is a space of time. Dad: How big a space of time? TM: As big as you want. D: Is a year a moment? TM: Yeah. It’s possible [...]

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pocket contents, the Maker

5 paper clips1 pirate tattoo11 plastic test tubes2 interesting rocks2 rolls of caps1 American Express card magnet5 can tabs1 cardboard disk (What, no amphibians?)

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It’s my blogiversary!

Happy blogiversary to me / happy blogiversary to meHappy blogiversary to me / happy blogiversary to me My blog is one year old today, and my how we’ve grown. The name went from Wishful Blogging (because, I figured, talking about blogging is so much easier than actually blogging) to The Glowing Edge, a move which [...]

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dreamy daddy-o

Tonight I dug out a packet of old photos that my grandfather gave me about eight years ago. At the time I had it in my mind to scan them in and return them to him, but I never managed to do it. This one is my own father as a teenager, probably around 1960. [...]

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