Mom, in the family group text, issued a ruling with the force of a tiny constitution: \u201cIt\u2019s one blog. You will share. I did not raise two islands.\u201d Deborah \u201cDeb\u201d Lindstr\u00f6m\u2014retired Montessori director, group-text politburo\u2014then laminated the peace treaty and taped it to my monitor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The compromise is simple enough to fit on the fridge. Buck \u201cLindy\u201d Lindstrom, Contributing brother and \u201cjust saying what everyone\u2019s thinking,\u201d gets one post a week. I get to edit my own posts. This is not a merger; it is an archipelago with scheduled ferry service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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My editor\u2019s note appears only UNDER Buck\u2019s posts, never above them. Mom says an editor\u2019s note above Buck looks condescending. Mom is correct, which is the most dangerous sentence I have written this week. So no, I am not deleting Buck. We are archiving his work in Other Perspectives (Family), where lawn doctrine, fishing notes, and the occasional family weather system can coexist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Comments are off. Not in public like animals. The internet has enough people mistaking a comment box for a courtroom, and I have no interest in moderating a constitutional convention between my brother and strangers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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There may be a little bitterness in this arrangement. You know who posts once and then acts like the republic has fallen? I do. No Huffington. No grandstanding. Just a weekly Buck dispatch, a brief Theo note beneath it, and a family law everyone can find.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Buck\u2019s lawn piece lives under this family law: one blog, two islands, one archipelago, and a laminated peace treaty holding the whole thing together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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