Putting Down Fresh Tracks

Posted by ONLINE on Friday, December 21, 2012

This morning I didn't think it would be a big deal but what looms ahead is, without a doubt, unsettling, but not for reasons you might think. I want to be the best husband, not just that I can be, but the best in the world, as in getting voted Time Magazine's [...]
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Post Race Musings

Posted by ONLINE on Saturday, August 18, 2012

Yesterday was the most physically challenging day my body has had to endure since the Great Post-Graduation Party Hangover of 1995. For the last 6 weeks I trained hard to try and prepare my body for the 26.5 mile stand up paddleboard race around the [...]
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Caught off guard, sickened, and tempted...way tempted.

Posted by ONLINE on Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Type in the word 'obesity' on the Chicago Tribune's website and 10 pages worth of material becomes immediately available to the reader. Articles ranging from a pill that fights obesity to the way obesity campaigns should not shame a child all point out [...]
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Sign Bruce on for 5 years of Super Bowls... at least do something

Posted by ONLINE on Monday, February 6, 2012

Would it be so bad?Bruce Springsteen can reach a wide range of audiences. Pair him up with a rapper who has reached a mature age and knows how to deliver a performance instead of an antic and just imagine how much fun an audience would have watching [...]
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Boo Radley's gonna get ya (to fetch some blueberries)!

Posted by ONLINE on Monday, January 30, 2012

Yesterday turned out to be an amazing day. Plenty of fun was had paddling on the Tred Avon and catching up with family but then, out of the blue, an old friend flew in for a visit after being MIA for quite a long period [...]
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Scratch Scratch Shake Shake Heavy Sigh

Posted by ONLINE on Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Economics has never been my strength.Listening to or being involved in political discussions has always made me wish I was somewhere else.Now that I am of a more mature age and in the tax bracket categorized as 'desperate' avoiding the responsibility [...]
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Traveler's Advisory: Joe Pa died so all of Pennsylvania has shut down

Posted by ONLINE on Sunday, January 22, 2012

Should you ever have the misfortune of being stuck in an airport I hope you do not suffer the same fate as I am presently experiencing. Apparently Sunday isn't a work day for the janitors who clean the men's rooms at the Philadelphia International Airport. [...]
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Posted by ONLINE on Saturday, January 14, 2012

For most of my life I carried the view that pets were just that - pets. These days my view has changed. My mother has charged me with a small degree of anthropomorphism when it comes to Eli Mongrel. She might be right. I [...]
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