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An Impending Apocalypse, a Stoner, and a Snow Globe
The whole idea behind my little piece of the blogosphere is that I think about things very deeply. That’s true. But also, many of the things I end up contemplating are completely random. And I don’t often know what got me started thinking about it. Case in point, the other day I was out running… →
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Did I Ever Tell You…? (Part 1)
About the time I went skydiving? I was thinking about that the other day when I was in the office of the senior secretary at work. I have a weird habit of popping my ankles by squatting down just a few inches until they pop. The secretary calls it “oiling my knees”. She was explaining… →
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Senior Year vs. Now
I’ve written before about going back and reading all of my journals. I’m doing something important with them. But in order to do that, I had to get all of them out of the foot locker/trunk that I have kept them in since I first went to college. In that trunk was a collection of… →
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Things My Secretary Doesn’t Know (Part 1)
I spent many years working in a school that served kids in pre-kindergarten up to 8th grade. 4 year olds to 13/14 year olds. I started working there when I was 22. As the years went on and I got older, I swear the kids got younger. By the time I left, I felt a… →
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A Steve for Every Season
In thinking about what kind of person I am these days, I’ve written about using the F word more and not caring so much about things. I’ve also discovered that I’m very petty and quite sarcastic. This is mostly shown in what I do and not what I say. I’m not quick-witted enough to be… →
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No Ma’am! You Didn’t Just Do That!
Because I am super excited about the idea of writing a book and writing on my blog, I have watched the movie “Julie & Julia” on repeat. It’s the story of Julia Child as she wrote her famous cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking. It also shows the journey Julie Powell went through as… →
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Just wear one anyway.
Most of my posts are about deep thoughts I have or some introspective reflection I’ve had, but this morning, something happened that caused me to think about something that has future implications. I left the house in my car to go through the drive-thru at a local chain restaurant to get breakfast biscuits and hash… →