Daddy Fear
Dan Kempner Legacy Columnist I’m a New York Jew, which automatically makes me a little neurotic. It’s in the contract when you join that particular
29 April 2020
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Our Own Creations, Our Own Success
Dan Kempner Legacy Columnist I was skimming Saint-Exupery’s The Little Prince, seeking a quote for a piece I’m writing and, just like every other time
26 December 2019
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Sometimes I Felt Like A Brotherless Child
Dan Kempner MDI Contributor My wife runs a little school in our house, for teaching English to Vietnamese children. This means that twice a week,
29 October 2019
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How To Make Pancakes for Your Wife: Mature Femininity vs … Well, Me
Dan Kempner Columnist Personally I don’t know what maturity really means, and it’s something I’ve observed more in the breach than by actual practice. But
28 August 2019
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Cuts Both Ways
Dan Kempner Columnist Some people peak early. I was one such. My glory years were in middle school. We’d moved back to a small town
28 July 2019
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A Long-Distance Check-in – “We Called Him Daniel Instead”
Dan Kempner Columnist Come this fall, I will have been dead for twenty years. That’s a long time and it gives a man room to
28 May 2019
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The Rev-rev of Testosterone Engines, and the Belief in Invincibility
Dan Kempner Columnist He was perhaps 30 years old, lean and muscular. Over six feet, tall for a Vietnamese, his long, direct strides took him
26 April 2019
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Squandered Talent, A Cautionary Tale
Dan Kempner Columnist My dad taught himself to play the guitar so he would have something with which to sing along. He created a four-finger
24 February 2019
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Comic Book Boy Finds His Community
Dan Kempner Contributing Writer My family moved around a lot in my early years. No, I wasn’t an army brat. My dad was long out
1 February 2019
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Merde! Squared – One Man’s Success Story
Various self-help gurus, TV ads and a long list of inspirational speakers have said, “You must be willing to fail to succeed.” What’s more, they
26 December 2018
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