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How to Milk a Birthday, or, “King for a . . . How Long?!?”

Birthday MONTH (& Other Oxymorons) If you’re an about-to-be 12-year-old boy (OK, my younger son), how do you squeeze the most out of your birthday? After all, by definition a day is only 24 hours — and you’re not even awake for one-third of it. Slippery Slope The answer:  morph “day” into “weekend.” As in,...
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Still Ten — On a Technicality

Just Under the Wire My younger son officially got his last “kids” haircut today, at the discounted kids rate. Just. Great Clips’ child rate applies to kids 10 and under. My son turned 11 today — but he wasn’t born until 11:45 p.m. When I shared that with Great Clips — at 5 p.m. this...
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