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Personal

Many of you know what a challenge it can be to navigate the countless little issues that come up in a relationship. I’ve known my wife for 28 years. Been married for 13. Dating for 19. Over this time, we’ve had the occasional “challenging conversation.” Sometimes, even when I was dealing with an issue that [...]

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I have a sixth sense for finding my car at O’Hare. Good thing, too, because I have no actual memory of where my car is. I’m currently sitting in seat 23B, having snagged a stand by spot on an earlier flight home from New York. I thought I’d write today about some of the incredible [...]

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Word-jumpy-itis

October 10, 2011

Elle’s going in for some tests today to help us figure out why words jump around when she reads, and what we can do to help her read longer without getting a headache. She’s a little embarrassed about needing the tests. Here’s us talking about it:   Jason Seiden is Co-founder and CEO of Ajax [...]

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Are You a Dancer or Pretender?

September 7, 2011

It seems to me that pretty much every one of us carries one of two childhood ideals with us into adulthood. Some of us carry over the ideal of silliness, often expressed as dancing in later years. Others of us carry over the ideal of make believe, often expressed as pretending we’re too important to [...]

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The other day, I posted about “Always tell the truth” and other lies my parents told me. These were lessons that turned out to be more complicated than they seemed. Today, I thought I’d focus on the things I learned that have remained true through adulthood: Life’s not fair. True that. Some people exist just [...]

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Untitled (A Poem)

July 23, 2011

Elle wrote this last night. It was scrawled on a sheet of paper in her room this morning. I’m sharing it with you because it needs to be shared. Untitled The winds will break the house of shelter And right then you will be fine But as it goes on Your vibrations will lie in [...]

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Picture the scene: you’re an old, crusty man with a hairy back and hairy ears. You’ve accomplished a fraction of the things you wanted to accomplish in life, and you spend so much time now visiting doctors about weird things happening with your body that you wonder what the big deal was with puberty. You [...]

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