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I like to write about things that connect us rather than things that divide, those THREADS... see? Huh?? Or maybe I hate conflict. Either way, I think I'm funnier than I am. This publication is proof!
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I am not a fisherman (opens the original)
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My son Sam and I recently returned from what has become an annual pilgrimage to Destin, Florida (Motto: The Gateway to Panama City!).The sunny coasts of Florida are, in aggregate, his happy place. For me, Florida is one of the locations on earth where the God-given magic of air conditioning shines brightest. (There are few things as satisfying as walking from a sticky, sand-coated heat into a wall of conditioned air that is already paid for.) Sam is what the kids might call “extra”. I mean that
It (Actually!) Wasn’t Me (opens the original)
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Perhaps it’s just me, and it often is, but I feel like we as a society need some kind of non-verbal or coded sign that we can deploy when we come out of a public restroom, something that says, “It wasn’t me.” A few years back, I went into a single-person restroom in our church’s kids ministry wing and immediately saw that something was amiss. (Don’t worry, this is not going to completely tasteless places.) It was as if someone - hopefully a child - had come in and immediately started dousing the
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