Category: Reflections
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19 Years Ago
Today marked 19 years since Dad died. I spent much of the emotion during my uncle’s funeral a few weeks ago, but it helped being surrounded by 450 of some…
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Writer’s Block
39 and 8. Tonight, I sat down at the computer ready to publish a post that I started a week ago. “Hmm”, I thought to myself, “this topic isn’t as…
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Zootopia
The entrance into Zootopia is a riff of the Hunger Games train through the districts. Then, the animals start going savage creating the Game within the city. All with someone…
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The 5K Is The Ideal Race
On a recent business trip, I asked the concierge at my hotel for advice about where to go running. “Are you training for a marathon?” he asked. Nope. I’m racing…
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Orlando
There isn’t a word for the event overnight in Orlando. To call it terrorism, which it was, makes it seem like something far away, isolated, and a something abstract that…
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Congrats!
Congratulations to Class of 2016. Tonight, at The University of Texas at Austin, the annual commencement on the Main Mall culminates four, five, six, seven, maybe eight years of academic…