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Monday Morning Wake-Up Call
Perhaps we should abandon resolutions, if only to not make ourselves suffer more. One alternate pledge we might take up as we stare down 2025 might be to forgo the upright vows to spend hours on a...
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New Year. New Me.
[…] Many of us are familiar with the experience of making New Year’s resolutions to boost our physical fitness, get on top of the to-do list, save money, be less irritable around the kids and so on....
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The Elephant in the Room
[…] By any reasonable standard, I have won life’s lottery. I grew up with two loving parents in a peaceful house. I’ve spent my whole career doing work that thrills me—writing for newspapers and...
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Walking. And stuck in the moment.
If you are looking for worldly insights, for something new and fresh, move on. And don’t look back. Save 5 minutes of your life doing something productive. Because you ain’t going to Live & Learn...
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Walking. High on Sucralose.
I walk. 1055 consecutive (almost) days on this daybreak walk at Cove Island Park. Like in a row. 43° F. Spring is in the air. Heavy fog is lifting. A runner, a pair of kayakers, the ever present...
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Sunday Morning. Yehi or!
No, it’s not my morning walk @ Daybreak @ Cove Island Park. Not yet 831 consecutive days, like in a row. It’s too damn early for that. 3 hours and 12 minutes before sunrise, to be precise. And here we...
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Walking. With Raspberry Syrup. (Part 1)
4:35 a.m. I pull into the parking lot. It’s been 805 consecutive (almost) days on my daybreak walk at Cove Island Park. 805 days, like in a row. 800 days from now, will I still be doing this? Ingrid...
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Walking. In Pursuit of Stalker.
4:40 a.m. Daybreak walk at Cove Island Park. 788 consecutive (almost) days. Like in a row. Yesterday, Eric (#1 Son; #1 on most days) and I were at the kitchen table having lunch. Popeyes Spicy...
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Walking. High on Sucralose.
I walk. 1055 consecutive (almost) days on this daybreak walk at Cove Island Park. Like in a row. 43° F. Spring is in the air. Heavy fog is lifting. A runner, a pair of kayakers, the ever present...
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Sunday Morning. Yehi or!
No, it’s not my morning walk @ Daybreak @ Cove Island Park. Not yet 831 consecutive days, like in a row. It’s too damn early for that. 3 hours and 12 minutes before sunrise, to be precise. And here we...
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Walking. With Raspberry Syrup. (Part 1)
4:35 a.m. I pull into the parking lot. It’s been 805 consecutive (almost) days on my daybreak walk at Cove Island Park. 805 days, like in a row. 800 days from now, will I still be doing this? Ingrid...
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Walking. In Pursuit of Stalker.
4:40 a.m. Daybreak walk at Cove Island Park. 788 consecutive (almost) days. Like in a row. Yesterday, Eric (#1 Son; #1 on most days) and I were at the kitchen table having lunch. Popeyes Spicy...
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T.G.I.F.
No physical appearance is worth not eating pasta for. — Matt Haig, with “One Beautiful Thing” in “The Comfort Book” (Penguin Life, July 6, 2021) Photo Credit
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Walking. On Day 1.
60° F. Cove Island Park. Morning walk. 452 consecutive days. Like in a row. But before we roll on to today, let’s talk about yesterday. Yesterday was Day 1: Refined sugar elimination. And you might...
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Monday Morning Wake-Up Call (Okay!)
“Okay!” said Dorothy out loud, stressing the exclamation. She retrieved the toolbox from under the kitchen sink and located nails and hammer. A change would do her good. She hung the mirror on the...
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Saturday Morning. Walking with Lucy.
4:30 am. I shake off the cob webs from Tylenol PM. Read morning papers, blog posts, skim social media. Read another chapter of Christopher Beha’s “The Index of Self-Destructive Acts.” Think about my...
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Saturday Morning (Post Thanksgiving)
I try to make all the big of me small, small, small. ~ Elizabeth Acevedo, from “The Shit & the Fan” in The Poet X Photo: The List – What really happens to your body after Thanksgiving dinner?
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Running. Not with Lorena.
Thanksgiving Day. 8 a.m. 43° F. I haven’t run in weeks. Weeks. I don’t wanna run. The TV in background is running a Netlix preview for The Irishman. Ah, yes. I’ve been waiting for this flick. I pause...
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