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Best Tips, Tricks, Life-hacks I've Found

There’s a whole sub-genre of the internet dedicated to productivity and How To Tie Your Shoes Like the Pros!! kind of articles. Much of it is silly and wasteful or pedantic and unrealistic, but every once in a while, I’ll stumble across something, either from a friend, or on the web, or in an old book, and it will make a tangible difference in my workflow or in my life.

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Poet-Dad?

Eight months ago, I stopped writing poems. It wasn’t a conscious decision, it just stopped happening, which was odd, since I’ve been writing poems pretty consistently since I was 15.

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What it's Like Living in a 500-year-old Building







When my wife and I first moved to Germany, we thought we might live in Stuttgart, the main metropolis in Baden-Wurttemberg, and that I would commute to Tuebingen to teach classes.  Once we saw the sleepy, lovely, medieval college-town of Tuebingen though, we knew immediately that it would make a better home base.  Unfortunately, everyone else seems to have had the same idea and so the small town was experiencing an unprecedented housing shortage.  Students literally dropped out of the University because they couldn't find a place to live.
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