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My sister just got a job with an elementary school (congratulations, Sister!). Part of her job is to help get the parents more involved with the school and their kids’ education. I work as a communicator at a University. Part of my job is to help parents and alumni stay connected with the school, mostly [...]

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I admit it, like Charlie Brown and Calvin, I have been known to heft a kite into the air just to see it fly.

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I was late for work today because (choose one) … I had to wash Son’s sheets because his too-small pull-ups couldn’t hold enough liquid (damn you, Stop and Shop, for being out of his normal size) I had to fill out a stack of forms for Daughter’s first day of school, which were sent to [...]

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A month or two before getting Complete Peanuts, I happened upon an old Calvin and Hobbes compilation at a yard sale. Now, Calvin and Hobbes is, and was, truly my all-time favorite strip. The genius of Calvin and Hobbes is not buried in an obscured past, but clearly visible during every phase of the strip’s [...]

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See more fun NYC photos …

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Just for fun I compiled a list of cameras that I have used to take photos in my iStock portfolio. It’s quite a list, due mainly to my habit of economizing by borrowing cameras from places that I have worked. In college, I was photo editor of the yearbook, so I used their (quite top-notch) [...]

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A friend snuck me up to the roof of a local building. It was a neat view, but even neater was the experience of doing something slightly naughty.

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Do you care how the sausage is made? Probably not. But I’ll tell you anyhow. You’re looking at an all-new zirkel.com site, created from the ground-up. Some of the changes: New Hosting service WordPress for blogging, instead of Blogger All names other than my own have been anonymized for privacy All old URL’s are now [...]

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The wife got a shot of Daughter and me taking a little siesta. Notice that we’re near the window, and Daughter has improvised a sleep blindfold.

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For almost two weeks I’ve had difficulty swallowing and talking, along with shortness of breath. It turns out I have a paralyzed right vocal cord. The doctor is not yet sure what the cause is, but he has sent me for several tests. At right is from the CT scan I had done yesterday. Of [...]

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