Compassion
I absolutely hate when I catch myself paving a road to hell with good intentions. Perhaps the worst part about this is the sheer earnest resolve that comes from good intentions. Having purposefully made choices explode like a frozen bottle of Drakes IPA is disconcerting for a number of reasons, not the least of which […]
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Arrrrrrizona!
What’s the pirate’s favorite state? Arrrrrrizona, of course! Fine, it might also be Arrrrrkansas, but seriously, I think peg-legs and parrots might be more comfortable in the more arid (arrrrrrid) climate of Arizona. A morning run through Moab proved fruitful in securing the idea that Moab is just plain radtacular, no two ways about it. […]
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On Age and Defining Myself
Before I go on with the final few dates of the lower 48 states (I know! So close!) I have to admit I’m distracted today by the subject of age. Many of my friends and I are 30 or thereabout. While I do have friends of various ages – from mid-20’s to late 60’s – […]
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Corn-Flakery
I’m going to date myself here (no pun intended) when I say the song running through my head as I write this is Tori Amos’ Cornflake Girl.* She sings, “Never was a cornflake girl, thought it was a good solution hanging with the raisin girls” which I’ve always thought was a clever line – clearly, though, […]
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What Happens When You Get All The Embarrassing Stuff Off the Table?
Dating in Utah was not at all what I imagined. First, I’d thought I would wind up out with a Mormon (yep, this is me, being stereotypical). As it turns out though, there aren’t a lot of footloose and fancy-free Mormon’s on OkCupid. Next up, I thought I was going to go out with a […]
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The Road From Denver to Moab
For the record, I think no one would be the wiser if I skipped out on writing about the rest of our stay in Denver, but it seems too weird to simply leap from a sick Megs and a flustered me right into waxing over the waning moon about my Utah date. What happened post-Bryan in […]
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Just Some Notes From a Day on the Road
Before leaving Los Alamos a few more noteworthy things happened: 1) While on a run I heard an episode of Snap Judgement that told the story of Argo which I highly recommend as while the movie was good, the radio piece was better. 2) I had a really long conversation with Mike from North Carolina. […]
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I’m Calling Some Shenanigans
Every year, my friend Liz used to write reflections about Valentine’s Day. Sometimes she was single, sometimes she was taken. This year, for the first time, she’s engaged for the holiday, and this time next year she’ll be married. She was in town for the week of V-Day, and for the first time since she’d […]
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‘Bama (the Al Kind, Not the O Kind)
Not sure if anyone else is keeping count, but Megs and I occasionally take a mental tally of how many great, good, indifferent, bad, and atrocious dates I go on. With drive times getting longer (how did the west get so big and east get to be so small? Weird proportions, former leaders of America. […]
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