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My son, who turns six in May, didn’t want to keep working on his dictation assignment for kindergarten. The task called for me to read a short sentence, which he would then write on the paper. He’d had a decent day at school – even completed his in-class work – but it was late afternoon…
I didn’t read the fine print. I was so excited that a friend had provided me a ticket for two to an advance screening of Solo: A Star Wars Story on Monday night that I didn’t pay proper attention to the warning that it was a “bag and tag” event. One condition of showing the…
This column appeared in The Herald-Sun in June 2014: The first time Mom introduced us to him, he likes to joke, “she claimed you were circus dwarves.” Not too long after that, Tom Berger became stepfather to me and my brother, Don. I don’t know if he was ready to be a father. I certainly…
