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ED RICKETTS AND JOHN STEINBECK WERE, IN STEINBECK’S OWN WORDS, “OBVIOUSLY RIDICULOUS” WITH THEIR 1940 IDEA OF A SIX-WEEK-LONG EXPEDITION TO THE GULF OF CALIFORNIA. No wonder that when they

Uncles are to fathers as vacations are to hard work FacebookTwitterEmail I want to be more of an uncle to my sons. Legally, the boys have three uncles: Uncle X, Uncle XX and my husband’s brother, Uncle Not X. All three have kept a safe distance from our family, approximately the width of one continent. Semi-legally, it gets a little murky. Two dads. No moms. Birth brothers in other adoptive families. There are no rules, so the Fisher-Paulsons have made them up: The adoptive sister of your ado...