“We’re in the middle of a war.” – Phoebe, while blasting Nerf darts. Every year the family sits down at Granny’s and fills out our tournament brackets. This year we went high tech and joined ESPN tournament challenge. So it is no longer possible for me to skip a few family dinners to avoid looking […]

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“Pause!” yells Phoebe as she hops up from our game to run to the bathroom. Over the past few weeks, whether we are dancing to a sing-a-long or playing Lego Friends, Phoebe wants everything to stop when she leaves. And she is upset if anything continued without her. She does not want to miss a […]

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“In short, the record shows that there is only one Evil Empire in baseball and it is the New York Yankees,” wrote the judges. “Accordingly, we find that [the Yankees] have a protectable trademark right in the term . . . as used in connection with baseball.” – WSJ Article The Royals are undefeated with […]

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Before the storm, Phoebe and I joined the masses in a last minute trip to the store. I was paying at the check out when I looked down to see Phoebe eating the counter. There was a wet trail where she had run her mouth. Horrified, I pulled her back and asked her to please […]

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The NY Times brought news that the Chinese military has hacked into American companies and stolen terabytes of data (huge amounts – 1 terabyte is 1000 gigabytes). The attacks began at places like Coca-cola, but “increasingly its focus is on companies involved in the critical infrastructure of the United States — its electrical power grid, […]

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