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The Beat Poets Taught Me How to Talk to a Four Year Old

Many days during my college decade were spent studying the Beat Poets and experimenting with stream-of-consciousness prose. We turned words cut from the newspapers into dialog and had nonsense talks over wine. We verbally riffed and let our talks ebb and flow on a course of their own often ending where they began… with a

It’s My Potty, You Can Cry If You Want To

“The rules are pretty simple: tell me when you have to go potty, and we will go potty. Got it?” I say this at 8 a.m., feeling confident I’m gonna crank out potty training today. Boot camp style. Let’s do this. I ask him again if he understands the rules.“Yeah,” he says.He says “yeah” to

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