In these modest ways she rescues people - lets them know that someone cares - and to those people, she’s as much of a hero as the guys on the fire truck.
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Chester is a well-put-together dude - sharp and tight, dressed black and white, he’s sophisticated, overconfident, athletic, extroverted, smart - a classic Alpha.
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Eviscerated by 34 people before me, the carcass is now mine with instructions to return it to the earth it came from, and broken bodies are dominating my awareness right now.
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in those first seconds after impact, don’t move. Take a ten-count to re-collect your awareness, then go through a quick self-assessment starting with the head: does it hurt? Vision OK? Still got teeth? Didn’t bite through your tongue again, did you?
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The pleasant woman and I introduce ourselves and shake hands. I am friendly, but can’t quite say, “Nice to meet you.” “Fascinated to meet you,” would be more accurate, but I don’t say that either because the situation is already weird enough.
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“I’m scared of needles”, I tell her. “I’ll use a small one”, she says.
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Race report: the author takes an epic beating in the Black Hills.
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The news industry doesn't respect us. They don't think we're smart enough to interpret events for ourselves, so they help us by inserting their opinion into nearly everything they report.
What should we do when the Nazis come to town and there's no Kleenex?
WARNING: includes that word that MSL prefers me not to say. That one that starts with F.
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My heart beat 170 times in the last sixty seconds. I’m sweating a bit and out of breath, but don’t call anyone, this isn’t a medical episode … yet.
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The sorting crew works all summer, picking out out the Playboys from the National Geographics ...
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It was one of those “Oh S#!T” moments. I knew right away I had made a mistake and wished mightily to be able to rewind the last two seconds of my life.
When Gramma said, “I’ve made some potato salad”, the proper response was, “I’ll be right over”.
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I had the new bicycle for less than a day, and I wondered if I had made a mistake.
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An identity crisis is nothing that a new bike can't solve.
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We don’t do a lot of entertaining - partly because we’re a couple of quiet introverts, and partly because it’s awkward asking our guests to listen to each other use the bathroom.
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I climbed into the same Chevy Suburban that my wife had disappeared in an hour earlier. We turned onto a dirt road directly behind the convenience store and climbed a steep hill.
