Help me understand.If you intentionally break immigration laws to enter, how are you law-abiding? You can be pro-thing and anti-parts at the same time. The genuinely curious question and statement I made sparked a week-long firestorm of accusations and venom. It culminated in a heated conversation with a friend tainted with revisionist history. Part of this…
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I hesitate to post this. Mental illness isn’t something most people want to hear about but I feel the need to share. I have struggled with anxiety/depression for the majority of my life. Usually, I am able to hide this and the casual observer would never peg me as being depressed. In fact, I have…
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I guess it’s time for a little end of year update. Most of my time is spent on social media so the blog tends to get neglected. Since my last health post at the end of June, I have logged over 128 workouts and almost 111 hours of calorie crushing work! Most of those hours have been…
Read moreNow that winter is setting in, it’s time to start running again. I was doing some preemptive searching on ways to avoid patella femoral syndrome and I discovered something unexpected. I am deformed! Actually, its just my metatarsals although I could lump my scalp in there and no one would argue. It turns out a primary cause of patella femoral…
Read moreEverybody knows sugar is not the best choice for us but there is something much worse. Fructose. Fructose presents itself just as alcohol to the liver. That can of Coke we give to our kids is like handing them a glass of Budweiser. If that wasn’t bad enough that glass of fruit juice without any…
Read moreI found this on Facebook and had to share it: There is something about female runners that has always been attractive to me. I think it combines strength, determination, power, and grace. Whatever it is, women who run are simply beautiful.
Read moreLast week was my bottom. I realized it as I pulled the Poang from my office into my bedroom in a last ditch effort to tolerate CPAP. As I said goodnight to my wife I had a glimpse of my future and I did not like it. I lasted about 20 minutes in the chair…
Read moreWhat have you been up to lately? I have been busy. We have all been busy. Removing floors. Installing floors. Listening to Taylor Swift. Dancing to Taylor Swift. Removing Carpets Finding dust. Painting walls. Installing more floors. Drinking coffee. Dismantling and cleaning vacum cleaners. Creating DIY room air cleaners. Finishing rooms. Finding new homes for old and…
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The crescendo of last nights CPAP experience was not only removing the mask from my face but pulling the power plug from the back of the machine to make sure whomever was trying to suffocate me couldn’t. It started out well enough, the usual tossing to get comfortable exasperated by the straps and hose, but…
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