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What If I Didn’t Stop Myself?

I worked remotely last week to keep an eye on my son Abe while he was off school. Amazingly, he played with toys for several hours by himself without disturbing me. Abe constantly imagines stories playing out between his toy vehicles and action figures on the fly. A dinosaur eats

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A Patient’s Perspective

Today I get to do my twenty-first straight day of radiation treatment. Don’t feel sorry for me at all, this is my fortunate opportunity to

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Man of Steel?

The tariffs being imposed by the Trump administration on foreign steel and aluminum are an intriguing bargaining chip from a macro economic standpoint, but a

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32 Pounds Ago

I have lost 32 pounds over the last four months, and I am stunned. It has not been that hard to do once I decided

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All the Wrong Places

The conventional wisdom is that “I need employees, but I can’t find them.” This seems odd to me. I’ve been hearing the same lament for

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Delivered

Making sense about the economy today. As I travel the 15 minutes from my home to work I see four vacant strip malls. Maybe a

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Where Did My Day Go?

Lloyd and Noah Graff are on vacation this week. Here is a favorite Swarfblog from July 10, 2015. Americans on average spend 7.4 hours staring

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