HeyJaredMichael Schoeffel
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Michael Schoeffel | Hi, nice to meet you, we’re the cool parents (opens the original)
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Hey, there! It’s so nice to meet you at this back-to-school thing for our kindergarteners that we’re all just milling around at, alternating between looking at the ground and smiling blankly into the middle distance. Look at our children over there on the playground, showing more social aptitude than we are. Aren’t kids just the best? Anyway, I’m Cool Dad, this is Cool Mom, and yes, we are the Cool Parents. I’m sure you’ve heard of us: Brayden’s our son, the one over there covered in strawberry
In search of Wrigley magic: A rain delay and a walk-off (opens the original)
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There I was in Chicago, having dragged my wife and 5-year-old son there under the pretense of a beach vacation – our AirBnB was only a block from Lake Michigan – but of course the real reason we were there was to see my beloved Cubs. My son, Conley, was totally on board with this, having been indoctrinated into the Cubbie Cult (by me), but my wife, Caitlin, was merely OK with it: she thinks baseball is fine, certainly better than football, but she’s not what you’d call a diehard. She’s more like
Pete Crow-Armstrong is giving Shohei Ohtani a run for his MVP money (opens the original)
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The thing about Chicago Cubs centerfielder Pete Crow-Armstrong is that he’s hated basically everywhere except Wrigley Field. I discovered this firsthand when I went to a Cubs/Pirates game in Pittsburgh earlier this year and listened to a chorus of boooos rain down upon him every time he came to the plate. There was one fan a few rows behind me, possibly slightly drunk, whose apparent life-purpose was to shout YOU SUCK, PETE! every time PCA was within earshot, which was kind of awkward, because m
Michael Schoeffel | A [Depressing] Little Life: What makes a good book? (opens the original)
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“But what was happiness but an extravagance, an impossible state to maintain, partly because it was so difficult to articulate?” – Hanya Yanigahara, A Little Life For months, I’d been mired in what can only be described as a book funk. I was still reading regularly, because I’ll never not read, but mostly just long articles from middle-aged dad magazines about how we’re living through the New Dark Ages. I was reading books, too, but not with enthusiasm, and it had been a long time since a novel
My foolish solo adventure in the Goshen Wildlife Management Area (opens the original)
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“He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life. He was alone and young and wilful and wildhearted, alone amid a waste of wild air…” – John Krakauer, Into the Wild When my wife asked what I wanted to do for Father’s Day this past June, I told her that I needed to have a Wild Man Night, which she initially interpreted as me going to a bar and trying to seduce women, an idea she wasn’t particularly keen on. She was much more understanding when I told her that all I merely wanted to dis
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