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Tag: Lessons Learned

"Mourning for Icarus" by James Herbert Draper
QuotesMarch 7, 2021

“Like Icarus”

“Youth possessed no perspective, he thought, the fatal flaw to all of its extraordinary advantages….”

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CoronavirusAugust 6, 2020

Message in the Bottles

Some people just don’t give a shit. Dad did. So do I.

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StoriesApril 12, 2020

Jesus Christ and Happy Days in Three Tiny Towns

We all pay for our sins somehow.

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Picture of vehicles on I-94 during near whiteout and cold conditions
ExperiencesJanuary 30, 2019

Ridin’ the Vortex ‘Til the Wheels Fall Off

Does it qualify as “living” when all you do is run to your car, into the front doors of your destination, back to your car and, finally, into your house, no pauses or sidetracks?

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MusingsDecember 27, 2018

Six Every-Day Resolutions for Every Day

New Year’s resolutions. Some will be kept throughout the year, many for a few weeks, most for just a day or two. Maybe we should go with every-day resolutions, instead. Every day.

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Lessons LearnedOctober 21, 2016

Phases of Learning

One evening last week my 6-year-old daughter and I ran out to Dairy Queen to get treats and bring them home for everyone. It was around 6:30, and as we […]

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Lessons LearnedJune 11, 2016

Positively Brilliant

I’d never heard a more miserable, pitiful statement in my life, and I haven’t heard a more miserable, pitiful one since. It came in an upper-level English literature course of […]

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Cool StuffJuly 27, 2014

Robots Rock. And Score Goals. And Write.

With advances in artificial intelligence and new feats of engineering, Robots continue to get smarter and better and more useful for humans. They also play soccer and develop press releases. Wait… What?

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Lessons LearnedJune 20, 2004

Thanks for Being Here

Father’s Day, 2004 “Thanks for being here.” My father, Martin C. Fredricks III, said this to me many times, usually at family gatherings. Just as often, though, he said it […]

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