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Buying Souvenirs
I used to travel quite a bit for work, both domestically and abroad, and I loved it. Of course, it got tiring, but new places and new people excite me. After a few years of travel drought, I recently traveled to New Zealand (it was amazing) and the trip brought up a familiar problem from…
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Adjusting to the Wind
Have you ever gone for a walk, run, or bike ride or out sailing or kayaking and you have an easy breezy trip away from where you started, but then you turn around and discover that the wind was helping you along and you didn’t even know it? And as you start for home, the…
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Help! I Have an Excerpt!
Well, folks, it is time. Time to reveal the project I’ve been working on for…well, a while now. And I’ve reached a bit of a low point in my progress. This means it’s time to ask for your help! See, I have an excerpt. Of a book. That I’m writing. And I need feedback. So…
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The System is Broken
Since I work multiple part-time jobs, I’m currently in a lower-income season of my life. (That’s a whole other post you can remind me to return to later.) Consequently, I’ve been applying for things like government-based medical insurance and hospital assistance with my medical bills. It’s been an arduous and long process, and it has…
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My 10-Year Anniversary
Yesterday, I tumbled out of bed and stumbled to the kitchen to pour myself a cup of ambition and I was met with this declaration of my 10-year anniversary: My roommate, whose head retains dates for approximately 18 years and 27 days longer than mine, remembered that, exactly 10 years ago, I walked into my…
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An Accidental Mile
Yesterday, I was coaching at the CrossFit gym, and I ended up running an accidental mile. One of my athletes asked me about how to pace herself during the mile run portion of the workout, and after giving her a few tips, I said I’d run with her because my pacing tends to be pretty…