I always want it to snow in the winter. I hold treasured memories of snow days from growing up in…
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- Backpacking
- Biking
- Books
- Cambridge
- Cats
- Challenge
- Chicago
- Cleaning
- Crafts
- Daily Journal
- Day Job
- Electronics
- Essay
- Fandom
- Fantasy
- Fiction
- Fitness
- Flute
- Food
- Fool
- Goals
- Grief
- Gym
- Hair
- Headaches
- Health
- History
- Hockey
- Home
- House
- IBS
- Judging
- Languages
- Monsters
- Music
- Nominee Project
- Pain
- Philosophy
- Photos
- Poetry
- Political
- Publishing
- Race
- Ritual
- Romance
- School
- SciFi
- Snark Alert
- Social
- Song
- Sports
- the stroke
- Travel
- Upper Country Singers
- Video
- Website
- Whine
- Wilderness
- Work
- Writing
Home Stretch
I didn’t finish my draft of the solo trip last weekend. Partly because I wasn’t feeling well and partly because…
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Just over three years ago, I tried Crossfit for the first time. At the time, I couldn’t afford more than…
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The Spanish class experiment is over, and I am relieved. It was interesting, but much more stressful than I anticipated.…
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Yesterday at Crossfit, we did one of the Open workouts. 14.4 to be exact. The last time I had tried…
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The write up of my solo trip is going along nicely. I should be finished with the initial draft in…
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My husband thinks I’ve reached a plateau on my pull ups. I don’t think he’s wrong, but I’m not sure…
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Before the Thanksgiving break, I was concerned about whether I would finish writing the first draft of my solo trip…
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I, and to an extent, my husband, took a nutrition challenge recently. We changed our eating habits entirely, and I…
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I’m finally getting down to the serious business of writing up my solo trip. I’m taking a bit of a…
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