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About me - Matt Claridge

aboutme

I have a wonderful wife of nearly twenty years and five beautiful children. They are my passion and my life. I teach reading to struggling fifth and sixth graders. I will eventually find my way into everything creative as I love to express the proverbial creative juices that fill my daydreams.

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My passion is ...

My family

I know too much about ...

Useless information

My parents always told me ...

Want in one hand and spit in the other. See what gets full faster.

My childhood ambition ...

To be an artist

My favorite memory ...

Meeting my wife

Why I write ...

I love it!

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Children's fiction

My first job ...

Delivering newspapers

My best moment ...

Finishing my book

My inspiration ...

My dreams

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Society & Lifestyle > North American Culture Native mascots: Right or wrong?Debate_temp_small
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I am so sick of people complaining and whining about their sorry offended selves when a team chooses to call their name after any Native American tribe. I can understand that if the Braves' team mascot went running out on a field in the middle of the seventh inning stretch wearing his underwear on his head and swinging a dead chicken around screaming like a banshee, that could be very offensive. To everyone! But, sit in the stands of any high school football game and hear the fans shout and cheer their team on filled with the pride, feeling that they are a part of that team. Where is the of...

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