Tom's Takes Archive
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Wild RideSo instead, take a deep breath, gather your composure and calmly instruct your child to take you home... because you need to change your underwear. |
Style-Online May 2013 |
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Hounding the PavementThey could be dead asleep, two rooms away, but when I say walk, they’ll come bounding up to me like the next contestants on The Price Is Right. |
Style-Online April 2013 |
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Play Ball!As the days get longer and spring settles in, we turn our kids loose on ball fields – from Rocklin to Placerville – to hit, catch and spit enough sunflower seeds to carpet the Earth. |
Style-Online March 2013 |
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P.S. I Love YouTo be honest, like most guys, I’m not good at discussing what is probably the single most important feeling we can have. |
Style-Online February 2013 |
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The Perfect StrideThere are worse places to suffer. |
Style-Online January 2013 |
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Characters of ChristmasI was going to turn this column over to a guest for December, to someone who really knows a thing or two about Christmas. |
Style-Online December 2012 |
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Turkey TalkIt quickly devolves into culinary crazy talk. |
Style-Online November 2012 |
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Monster MashA Spooktacular Poem |
Style-Online October 2012 |
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Daddy Hotcakes...the hiss of batter striking the hot griddle sounded like applause as Dad finished off “Summer Wind.” |
Style-Online September 2012 |
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Love, Loss and LessonsI don’t feel like an old guy, and when my buddies and I get together I don’t think we look like the cast from a Flomax commercial just yet. |
Style-Online August 2012 |

















