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Since 2009 I’ve had a calendar of firefighters on my wall. For the first 9 years, it was the Colorado Firefighters Calendar, which supports the Children’s Hospital Colorado. However, as time went by, I became less and less enchanted with the calendar: it started out slick, but it became slicker. With the main photos, […] This sweater is hung on the back of my front door – it does so to block people from easily looking through my mail slot – which is still in my door even though mailboxes are now located near the front door. When I went to Saskatchewan back in 2018 – making it my […] Monday morning, I went for my (now) usual morning constitutional – leaving home at 06:00, back around 07:30. The goal is to get my 10,000 steps in while the streets are deserted. There is a careful dance early in the morning – people take detours in order to avoid each other – whether a […] One of my friends has started studying Japanese – and after the first lesson, she informed me that the Japanese word for “father” is Chichi. Which led me to speculate, out loud, “I wonder where Chi Chi LaRue got his nickname.” “Who is Chi Chi LaRue,” she asked. “He was a famous golfer when I […] It is not easy for beggars on the street to get money from me. I notice them but do not engage because I’m not easily moved emotionally – especially by the guys who walk around leaning on a painfully short crutch. In fact, I have often looked at the crutch and thought to myself that […] I actually uttered this words on a bus earlier this year. I was somewhere random and needed to go somewhere else random and, like magic, there happened to be a bus that connected the two points. You might think that this is a one off, but the professionals at BVG, the Berlin Public Transit Group, […] A couple months ago, YouTube started recommending to me that I watch Mormon Missionary Surprise videos. For a week or two, I was addicted. Basically, the genre works like this: some kid (and by kid, I mean guy aged 18 or girl aged 19), has received their letter from the Church of Jesus Christ of […] I lost my father five years ago this coming February – this is not something I actually spend a great deal of time dwelling upon, but rather he comes to mind at some of the oddest moments. When I least expect it, he pops into mind – environments where I don’t think I would have […] 80: Betty in the Sky with a Suitcase by Betty Thesky (and others): I had high hopes for this book – I am a devoted fan of the Betty in the Sky podcast – and I thought that surely it would translate into an amusing book. Ultimately this book completely lacked the voice of Betty, […] This past couple of weeks, I’ve been talking to my banks – on both sides of the Atlantic – in order to check up on some details of my life. And it occurred to me that back in January, when I was in Bloomington, I’d visited my safe deposit box and found all my old […] |
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