Just a Smidge

Just a Smidge

Summer Reading

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Marc Schmatjen
Jun 12, 2013
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We are officially on summer break. By “we,” I of course mean everyone at my house except me. The first day of summer, my three boys looked at me as I was getting ready to leave the house in the morning and asked, “Where are you going?”

“Work.”

“Oh… You don’t get summer, too?”

“Shut up.”

I’m not bitter.

In preparation for a three-month period of not bein…

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