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#Winning the lottery

So it’s finally happened: after almost two years of dodging CoViD-19, the virus finally caught me and mine. We found out with some certainty...

Dominique Gerald M. Cimafranca - January 30, 2022

#Growing up YouTube

Early on, we didn’t want to be parents who would plop their kid in front of a tablet to pacify them. In that idyllic...

Dominique Gerald M. Cimafranca - December 19, 2021

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#Lifelong learning

Around the time I left academe, when outcomes-based education was in full furor, one of the concepts bandied around was “lifelong learning.” It sounded...

Dominique Gerald M. Cimafranca - December 12, 2021

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# Threenager

Like any new experience, parenting is adding new words to my vocabulary. Take “threenager”, for example. Up until two months ago, I didn’t know...

Dominique Gerald M. Cimafranca - July 11, 2021

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Into the sunset

This week, I’ve had to contend with two deaths, one private and one public. Such is life as one gets older, I suppose, that one...

Dominique Gerald M. Cimafranca - June 27, 2021

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Smooth like butter

As the household IT guy, wrangling with the inkjet printer falls on me. Often, these jobs have to do with craft decorations for my...

Dominique Gerald M. Cimafranca - June 13, 2021

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Side effects

During the briefing before they gave us the AstraZeneca vaccine, we were told we might have fever and chills. The literature was more explicit...

Dominique Gerald M. Cimafranca - June 6, 2021

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Vaccination!

If nothing else, this stage of the pandemic has given us something new to talk about: vaccinations. It’s a germane icebreaker for starting meetings:...

Dominique Gerald M. Cimafranca - May 30, 2021

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