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Posts from December 2007

Weekend in Haverhill: Day Two

If there is one theme running through the many things that Mason says all day, it is this: You are moving too slowly! Pick up the pace! Stop hindering my exploration of the world!
Or, as he puts it, “Come on, daddy! Let’s go! Hurry! Come on!”
He did slow down for [...]


Weekend in Haverhill: Day Three
(Birthday Edition)

When we found out that Nicole was pregnant with a boy, I worried. Frankly, I was disappointed, and tried to mask that disappointment with jokes about Corinthian shepherds and Prince Hamlet and Luke Skywalker—examples, more or less, of the essential problem of fathers and sons as I understood it. Everything in my experience [...]

 
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