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Yawning
The tingle of stretched jaws spread wide as you can muster - to feel the relief of a delicious yawn. I discovered they were contagious as a little boy.
Dec 13, 2025
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Skinny Jokes
Some things that childhood brings forward - are those comments that just landed - differently.
Dec 13, 2025
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Being Discovered
I believe all of us as children had some talent - that we were for sure going to be discovered for. Mine was art...
Dec 9, 2025
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Myrtle Beach
I’ve always loved the beach.
Dec 9, 2025
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Food Foibles
Little boys have a food gullet for storing an amount of eating that does not match the small stature the does the eating... my experience with hot dogs…
Nov 2, 2025
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Connections
Sep 4, 2025
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Earliest Aware
May 10, 2024
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Who Might You Be?
Feb 6, 2024
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Tennis & Math
Feb 12, 2025
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Connections
Dad's new job at Sperry Rand put him in contact with a number of interesting people.
Sep 4, 2025
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Fall
Climbing trees was something I found myself to be quite adept at as a child.
Aug 28, 2025
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Driving
In the late parts of fall through winter, dad had another side hustle of topping trees.
Aug 16, 2025
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Mountain Dinner Sundays
Growing up mid-state in North Carolina, we had the flexibility of being equidistant from the beach and the mountains.
Aug 16, 2025
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Noogs and Grannies
What we hear has an impact on understanding.
Jun 15, 2025
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The Big Move • Part 2
Awaking in the Aloft hotel in Nashville, TN - we grabbed breakfast at the hotel and headed out.
Apr 4, 2025
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The Big Move • Part 1
July 1, 2023 my oldest son Jonathan and his wife Emily made the big move from North Carolina to Salt Lake City, Utah. Being a small part of this move…
Apr 3, 2025
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The Smithsonian - Like a Book
In the spring of my 3rd grade year, dad was fully immersed in his new career path as a programmer with Sperry.
Mar 16, 2025
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I Was in 3rd Grade & We Had A Garden
My 3rd grade year, my parents purchased the land on the corner of Orange Grove Road and Davis Road in Hillsborough, North Carolina.
Mar 16, 2025
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The Examined Life of Brian W. Sykes
The personal Substack, that's a collection of reflective thinking composed around my wacky, crazy life from the formative years of childhood, through a host of random events in adulthood.
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