Spring Break–Redneck Style
Welcome to Happy Hour at Reed My Writing. My name is J.R. and this is my place. Thursday is my day off and I’m bringing in some great guest bartenders to run the place in my absence. Each month...
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Spring Break Memories
Santa Cruz, Half Moon Bay, Lake Tahoe, and Yosemite… Today’s guest bartender for Happy Hour is Elle, a Twitter friend/part-time blogger from Northern California. [Raiders, baby!] Drinks are free for...
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High School Band Director Saves More Than 120 Lives
Quick thinking and even quicker action saved the lives of over 100 students and their chaperones. Mark Linn, the band director for the Parkway North Vikings marching band, from St. Louis, Missouri,...
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Helping My Wife Lean In
Scott Behson takes his own advice for two-career families. My wife just started a new show, leaving me to shoulder the load for a while so I can help her “Lean In” to her career. Four ways our family...
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A Good Feeling
On a beautiful spring day in Boston, Adam Olenn is reminded why he’s glad to be alive. Last week some motherfuckers set off a couple bombs in my city. They planted others, including a bad bit of...
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One Way to Know Your Boy Is Home for Spring Break
There’s one area of the house where signs of a college boy’s return home are unmistakable. ___ Editor’s Note: Every college boy is different, but many have a particular behavior in common—raiding...
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The 5 Stages of Parental Spring Break Grief
Spring Break, the cruelest prank the public schools system ever played on the average working American parent. – 1. Denial. It happens every year. The Friday before Spring Break starts, you say to...
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Spring Break, Young Men and a ‘Mad Roman Candle’
Michael Brennan remembers a crazy time and a crazier encounter. — I was, this past Easter weekend haunted by the Ghosts of Spring Break Past, and while ruminating over my many youthful misadventures I...
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Embed from Getty Images — I am 50. I teach painting at an art college in Brooklyn. I have a good life, full of many small meaningful rewards, but I just let another Spring Break slip through my...
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3 Ways To Keep Kids From Driving You Nuts This Spring Break
Embed from Getty Images By Piper Spring Break is almost upon us, and us parents likely won’t even make it halfway through the break without wanting to collectively chant, “Is it over yet? Is it over...
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Spring Break
— Spring Break is finally here. For me, this is always a time of reflection. Five years ago, at age 26, I became a head football coach. It was only my third year into the profession. Inexperience...
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How You Can Take Your Teens Around the World for Spring Break
— If you’re a working parent, you probably get secretly jealous of your kids. They have a week off in October, another week off in the spring for spring break, a long holiday break, and over two months...
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Five Social Distancing Survival Tips For Families
The Un-Sabbatical Three weeks ago, I was a naysayer. All of this is going to pass, I thought, and I even went so far as to tell my wife to please stop providing me with daily updates about COVID-19....
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How to Stay Calm in a Time of Crisis
— A lot’s changed in a week. Last week spring breakers were partying hard, oblivious to what was coming. And then, for lack of a better expression, the sh*t hit the fan. Shelter-in-place orders were...
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Teens, Young Adults, and Coronavirus
Dear Mr. Dad: My older children are away at college in another state and, as far as I’m concerned, they’re behaving irresponsibly with regard to the Coronavirus. Rather than come home and obey social...
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