February 26, 2010
Remember that awful feeling of pressure in your eardrums going up or coming down in a plane as a kid? On our trip home the other day, Rio described it as being “like knives in my ears”. I suddenly had this intense sense memory of that exact feeling. Awful. Maybe my least favorite part of [...]
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September 24, 2009
All this talk about the Marshmallow Test made me curious how my own kid would react. I’m too lazy to actually turn my kid into a lab rat, so I just put the question to her hypothetically after dinner one day. Me: What would you do if I took you into a room with only [...]

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