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Wrapping Up 2025 (Year in Review)
From YouTube to Spotify, and even LinkedIn and PC Optimum points, it feels like everyone is...
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My New Mantra for 2025 (New Year’s Resolution)
In a month when the local gym and organic health food store might be at their busiest, I’m...
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Retrospective: 2024 Year in Review (By the Numbers)
I feel like I say this every December, but 2024 has been quite the year. It has been a mix of the...
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Is Blogging Dead in 2022?
As I type out these words, it’s been more than two weeks since I last published in this...
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Childhood Unplugged: How Katherine Martinko Gets Kids Off Screens (And How You Can Too)
Among all the other things we have to deal with these days, screen time has quickly become a big...
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Dads Go Wild 2024 at Manning Park Resort
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Summer Reading List: 6 Books I’ve Read Recently and Recommend
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A Return to Guiding Words for 2024
For the last few years, I’ve been setting “goals” of varying specificity for my...
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Hi, I'm Michael. By day, I'm a writer and editor. By night, I'm still a writer and editor. I'm also an engaged work-at-home dad, a voracious foodie, an avid traveler, and a thinker who thinks he might be thinking too much. Beyond the Rhetoric is a reflection of my eclectic life, fueled by caffeine and Wi-Fi.
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