Tag: children
member name: Mike Ball
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June 04, 2006 12:59 PM EDT --
Sunday, June 4
This is a special note to let you know that my documentary, Young Poet Incarcerated, and the young man it's about were profiled on Page One of the Ann Arbor News today.
In case you . . .
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June 02, 2006 03:50 PM EDT --
This is the What I've Learned So Far... piece that won the 2003 Erma Bombeck award. It was republished today in my print column, so I thought I'd share it with my Gather friends.
The other day . . .
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May 07, 2006 12:25 PM EDT --
First published February 10, 2006
Last week in this column we tackled the use of "blogs" by "Generation Y," or "Generation Z" or "Generation Shrek" or whatever . . .
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May 26, 2006 05:15 PM EDT --
This column originally appeared in What I've Learned So Far...
Ok, I realize that I write a lot about the differences between men and women. That's because there are just so many differences, . . .
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January 21, 2007 06:48 PM EST --
My son and I recently went into a candle store to buy my wife a candle for a gift. On purpose. Just the two of us guys.
What could we have been thinking?
When I was a kid, there were two kinds of candles . . .
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May 15, 2006 12:15 AM EDT --
First published May 12, 2006
All right guys, Sunday is Mother's Day. Yellow alert! Go to DefCon 1!
For those of you who are not familiar with A.D.S.D. (Association of Dads, Sons and Daughters) . . .
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March 07, 2007 10:40 PM EST --
Dad squints into the hot morning sun and crushes a new set of indentations into the steering wheel with a grip that only twenty-three solid hours of expressway driving and gas station coffee can produce. . . .
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March 14, 2007 05:48 PM EDT --
Todd Junior is lying on his belly on the roof of the cabana in the late morning sun with a water balloon in each hand, snickering and waiting for Little Suzie to come around the corner. Little Suzie is . . .
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March 28, 2007 12:22 AM EDT --
I got a haircut this week.
Now to a lot of people this may not seem like a life-altering event but, as a child of the 1950s and 1960s, haircuts have always occupied a very special place in my personal . . .
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July 06, 2007 12:21 AM EDT --
We went to a wedding today. The bride was the daughter of a couple who have been our friends for more than thirty years. Looking at this radiant, drop-dead gorgeous young woman in her wedding dress, beaming . . .
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May 01, 2008 10:46 AM EDT --
This afternoon my friend and I dropped into a friendly neighborhood tavern to grab some lunch and to watch the Detroit Red Wings CRUSH the Colorado Avalanche in the second round of the NHL playoffs. Now, . . .
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November 29, 2007 10:25 AM EST --
Well, the first leg of the Holiday Triathlon - Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year - is over. As usual, my family spent a wonderful Thanksgiving day eating way too much food, drinking what some of us . . .
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March 21, 2007 02:14 PM EDT --
Todd Junior's heartfelt request drifts on the clear Florida morning breeze like the sweet sound of a Chihuahua giving birth to a litter of St. Bernards;
"I WANNA SEE MICKEY AND GOOFY!" . . .
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June 27, 2007 09:21 PM EDT --
First off, I have to set the record straight. In last week's column I wrote an inventory of my father's day gifts, and I mentioned that my son had given me a barbecue apron that said "The . . .
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July 18, 2007 10:52 PM EDT --
I was talking with a group of friends at a high school graduation party over the weekend, and the conversation turned to a problem that guest of honor, Jim, was dealing with. It seems that a very pretty . . .
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March 19, 2008 01:19 PM EDT --
"Four lift tickets - two adult, two children. That will be $112.50."
"You don't understand," Dad explains patiently. "We're here on the Mount Feverblister Winter Sports . . .
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February 13, 2009 03:35 PM EST --
My wife and I met on a blind date 34 years ago today. We had lunch. We strolled around Ann Arbor, swapping philosophical insights. I played my guitar and sang John Denver songs to her, while she convincingly . . .
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October 09, 2009 04:07 AM EDT --
The kids will be getting married in less than a week now. I find myself walking around with a big stupid grin on my face at the thought that my son - who I am pretty sure does not yet know . . .
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January 27, 2008 07:52 PM EST --
I have the privilege of coaching several creative writing groups, two of which are made up of middle and high school students. These are kids who are as incredibly gifted as they are depressingly young . . .
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December 24, 2007 03:07 PM EST --
Carlson was not a particularly happy Angel. You see, he wasn't allowed to live in Heaven. He was a Guardian Angel, which meant that he had to hang around on Earth, taking care of his Client, Bob. . . .
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