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My Son Failed the Chicken Wing Test

I gave him a good life, but I also give him a hard time. It’s a balance. — Update 6/7/22: Level has a new home. You can read this article and other new articles by visiting LEVELMAN.com. There’s been a meme floating around for a month or two that shows a row of five numbered chicken wings, each one a little more stripped of meat than the last…

Food

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My Son Failed the Chicken Wing Test
My Son Failed the Chicken Wing Test
Food

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Aug 13

Bye, Ma: A letter to my mother following her passing
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Shane Paul Neil

This is a beautiful tribute, Shane.

This is a beautiful tribute, Shane. I had a complicated relationship with my mother, too, and I felt every line. All of it. Your thoughts on therapy, on God, on the need to keep space between you and the difficult people in your life, and most importantly, your desire to…

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Jun 2

The Man Who Should Have Been My Favorite Uncle.
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Shane Paul Neil

Love this.

Love this. I had an uncle Butch, too. And he and I had a lot in common, same as you. Strained relationship, same as you. But unlike y'all, we never really got past the distance between us before he was gone. I'm happy for you, bruh.

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Nov 15, 2021

Yes, White People Feeding Black Babies to Alligators Really Happened
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Allison Wiltz

I'm Black.

I'm Black. I don't believe any of this. It makes no sense and there is no evidence of anyone doing it, to say nothing of it being some kind of widespread thing. Been arguing about this online for years. Didn't see the Twitter fight, but it is almost certainly about…

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Nov 1, 2021

A Man’s Place is in the Kitchen

When he gets around to it. — I’ve been slightly annoyed with myself that I didn’t cook much this summer. Especially since we upgraded our kitchen in the Spring. But with the cooler temps over the last couple of weeks, I’ve started cooking again. ‘ I don’t know why I was so hard on myself over why…

Food

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A Man’s Place is in the Kitchen
A Man’s Place is in the Kitchen
Food

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Oct 23, 2021

It’s Getting Harder to Unplug in the Woods

And that’s not always a bad thing. — Five years ago, there was little chance that I would have had cell phone reception on most of the backpacking trails I hiked. This was true even though many of them were no more than a hour or so out of mid-sized cities. But I am writing this piece (well…

Backpacking

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It’s Getting Harder to Unplug in the Woods
It’s Getting Harder to Unplug in the Woods
Backpacking

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Oct 10, 2021

What’s crazy is that you may have never remembered “Gloria” by Laura Branigan again if I hadn’t…

What’s crazy is that you may have never remembered “Gloria” by Laura Branigan again if I hadn’t reminded you. And yet, now that I have, you’re all like, “Of course!” Every now and then, I’ll be walking along, minding my own business when a song that I haven’t heard in…

Music

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What’s crazy is that you may have never remembered “Gloria” by Laura Branigan again if I hadn’t…
What’s crazy is that you may have never remembered “Gloria” by Laura Branigan again if I hadn’t…
Music

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Oct 6, 2021

A co-worker died over the weekend.

A co-worker died over the weekend. We weren’t particularly close, though he was a nice enough guy. As I get older, more and more people seem to die around me, many of them in my age group. And I find myself taking these deaths more and more personally, even those…

Death

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A co-worker died over the weekend.
A co-worker died over the weekend.
Death

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Oct 1, 2021

Capturing The Moment

Digital photography has made it easier than ever to remember the good times Technology is something else, as my grandmother would say. So many pictures. I’ll take more pictures of my teenage son this year than have ever been taken of me. Outside of school photos with “PROOF” stamped on…

Photography

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Capturing The Moment
Capturing The Moment
Photography

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Sep 30, 2021

It’s Fall. Time to Break Out the Grill

Why you’re oh-so-wrong about grilling being solely a summer thing. It’s the time of year when most people are putting their grills away. But I’m just getting started. Why? Allow me to take you back more than twenty years. It’s the late 90s and it’s hot. Maybe not 100 degrees…

Food

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It’s Fall. Time to Break Out the Grill
It’s Fall. Time to Break Out the Grill
Food

3 min read

Chris L. Robinson

Chris L. Robinson

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Top Writer in Parenting, and Food. I write about masculinity, fatherhood, family, and relationships.

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