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  10 Things I Told My Daughter About Abortion

  May 15 at 4 a.m.

  On days when my wife works at the hospital and has the car, the kid and I hike about quarter of a mile to her elementary school. This is her favorite place to ask me Important Questions™… probably because she realizes at that point I’m only 40 percent awake and...

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  5 Tips for Houston Family Farm Trips

  January 14 at 5 a.m.

  For reasons I’m not sure that I could explain, I spend a lot of time taking my kid to various Houston farm parks. What’s a farm park? They’re farms with rides and bouncy castles and stuff like that. We have a lot of them up on the north side. Old...

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  We Need More Kid-Friendly Video Games Like Knack

  January 11 at 5:30 a.m.

  Knack is one of those games that we never seem to talk about despite it being a launch title for the PS4. It was a giant critical “meh” when it came out, and its 300,000 units sold had a lot to do with the fact that it came packaged with...

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  OscarGate is About Reactionary Politics, Not Homelessness

  Tuesday, December 18, 2018 at 5 a.m.

  “What is OscarGate?” you ask, Dear Reader, as you justifiably plot my violent death for introducing another pointless “gate” into the popular lexicon. It’s what I’m calling the reaction to Sesame Street’s homeless Muppet, Lily. Lily, first introduced on the show in 2011, has always been a character used to...

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  5 Tips When Your Family Works on the Holidays

  Monday, November 19, 2018 at 5 a.m.

  Like a lot of Houstonians who work in the Medical Center, my wife is on a rotation when it comes to holiday shifts. Last year she worked Christmas Eve and Day, this year it’s Thanksgiving and the day after. Then there’s me, a journalist. I work from home most days,...

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  Happy Stormy Halloween and What to Do With Your Leftover Candy

  Wednesday, October 31, 2018 at 12 p.m.

  Last Halloween, we Houstonians and other nearby residents, north and south, were still cleaning up our homes, businesses, and lives from that muthaflipper, Hurricane Harvey. My family was spared as the rain stopped just as the water was lapping the front door of our home. Many of our neighbors and...