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Author: Kevin Donahue
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Spring has sprung. Change is in the air. The grass is greening, the cherry trees are flowering. And my 16-year-old nephew Ryan walked into the house Saturday with the car keys in his hand. He had driven the family minivan part of the way from Maryland to Pa. Yes, change is in the air. And his dad didn’t…
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Kelly attended his FIRST prom of the spring, with his friend Vaughn, who invited him to the Agnes Irwin High School prom. He and Vaughn made a stunning couple, though everyone tried to triage his bowtie (next time, kid, buy one that comes pre-tied). And yes, because Kelly is attending two proms as a junior…
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This has been a week about loss. Went to Phillies game last Wednesday night with friends and it had the feeling of a hangover, of waking up to find the girl you found so fascinating the night before isn’t how you remembered, that the window has shut on the Good Times. Less than 20,000 unenthusiastic…
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Not sure how exactly it happened, but I appear to be growing in my 40s. I was 5-11 in college. That’s bad news for Kelly, who was ecstatic when during a checkup at CHOP he clocked in at 6-0, and was claiming he finally had proof he was taller than me. This has been a…
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Kelly and Peter have been agitating for more formal clothing for a matter of months—Peter because he hopes to be working/interning soon, Kelly because he watches the cable show “Suits” and thinks Meghan Markle might give him the time of day if he was dressed better (speculation) . So we went to the King of…
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We’ve been trying for a while to see Virginia’s cousin Mary, but life basically remained in the way—so it was very nice to manage to see Mary and Rosalie today. We split the distance to be traveled and grabbed lunch in Havre de Grace, Maryland, on the Susquehanna River, at the Tidewater Grille. It was…
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Kelly turned 17 on Friday and we took him to Philly on Monday to celebrate, picking up Pete and going to a nearby restaurant, Route 6, for dinner. It was a very nice dinner and it was nice to see Pete, who has been at Temple for the past month. Best of all, Kelly has…
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After Monday’s snow, Wednesday brought the tink-tinkling of sound. By 7:30 am, we lost power, and a smallish tree fell across our driveway. By 11 am, our backup power to the sump pumps had given out and the water was coming in to the basement. Kelly, and a cadre of his friends, pitched in to…
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I finished up the third season of Homeland on Friday—and immediately realized the only person I could talk about it with was my wife. Because we had watched it together, so we were at the same point in the series. And the truth is, nobody these days is ever at the same point in a TV…
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The snow just keeps coming this winter. Monday ended up a true snow day—no school, no work. Everybody stayed home till about 6 pm. Virginia and I shoveled off a load of snow from the driveway, and the plow didn’t come through till about 10 pm. Tuesday the skies cleared and it was back to…
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Kelly and I spent a week in Haiti. I can’t say it’s life-transforming—it’s simply too early—I can say it opened my eyes and made me question the rather thoughtless abundance of my existence. What do I need? What do I merely want? What could give up? Below are photos from our trip. Great group of…
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