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Michael Hartford

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Dad's Eye View: 52 Family Adventures in the Twin Cities

Dad's Eye View: 52 Family Adventures in the Twin Cities

52 family adventures in the Twin Cities

2011

Michael Hartford

Michael Hartford

Stories

Michael Hartford

RE: QMC, 1989?

RE: QMC, 1989?

Jun 29

RE: QMC, 1989?

Jun 29

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Organdy

I wake up trying to recite the alphabet backwards. I’m on “P”, and trying so hard to move to “O” instead of “Q” that my head hurts. When I…

Jun 22

Organdy

Jun 22

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Single Sign On

Her computer asks her for David’s name the next morning. It doesn’t know that it’s asking after David, it just wants her password, but…

Jun 15

Single Sign On

Jun 15

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Buried

They started digging at night; they used the little backhoe against the roses I trenched for the winter just last week, then switched to…

Jun 8

Buried

Jun 8

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Amnesia

For almost a year I couldn’t even look at her, much less touch her. We’d go over to my brother’s house and I’d sit by the door, still…

Jun 1

Amnesia

Jun 1

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The Boundary Line

I came home for my first Thanksgiving vacation from college to find my father standing on the curb, his back to the street, staring…

May 25

The Boundary Line

May 25

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Summer Rotation

Two weeks before my sixth birthday, I ran into the house screaming, “Mario’s dead! Mario’s dead!”

May 18

Summer Rotation

May 18

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Where the Bones Cry Out in the Long Night

Bellies filled with a lunch of steamed clams, vinegar-drowned french fries and Shipyard Ale, we push through the brambles and Indian paint…

May 11

Where the Bones Cry Out in the Long Night

May 11

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Standing on the Shores of Atlantis, Skipping Stones

They were playing tic-tac-toe without paper on the way to Pictured Rock National Park, imagining the grid with boxes numbered one to nine.

May 4

Standing on the Shores of Atlantis, Skipping Stones

May 4

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Showing

I’d like to thank my wife for her refreshing lack of support.”

Apr 27

Showing

Apr 27

Michael Hartford

Michael Hartford

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https://michael-hartford.com (profile pic by Melvin Edward Nelson - "The octopus is whirled and hacked to pieces")

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