Blog: A Free Man

It is not Father's Day in Australia. So don't bother telling me what a good Dad I am or scrambling frantically to come up with an excuse as to why you haven't sent me a gift. But it is Father's Day in 52 countries, including the United States, so Happy Dad's day to all you Pops out there - including my own. I was a weird little kid. I was obsessive - a cataloguer and a collector. My room was filled to overflowing with boxes of baseball cards, rocks, stamps. I was fascinated with statistics and probability. Time [...]

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