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Pacing from window to window, talking to myself. Looking out the front and the back and this side and that side as though the conditions might be better over here or over there.
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The saddle of a cheap motorbike, the deck of a riverboat, the open bed of a prehistoric pickup truck - in Africa, I’m happiest on the move.
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‘the hell happened here?
Ask it as a question or just state the obvious.
The hell happened here.
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he’ll hide in the ditch and stay down until I’m past. Then he’ll cross the road behind me and sprint up on my other side where I’m not expecting him and just about the time I think I’ve made it …
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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow . . . one step and one day at a time, with courage and perseverance, we work our way through the month of March.
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I feel extra-masculine manhandling barbed wire, driving my Dodge through waist-high weeds and stepping in cow shit. Those are the kinds of things us city boys only get to do in our imaginations as we’re watching truck ads on TV. I hope MSL notices how broad my shoulders are.
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Mom needed to explain something about one of the other guests so that we wouldn’t say something embarrassing in front of everybody.
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MSL unexpectedly came into the room while I was watching one of “those” videos that just show up in my feed sometimes and I couldn’t get my browser closed fast enough.
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I’ve been working on a project for five years. It’s not my life’s work, but it might take a lifetime to finish. (and no, I'm not talking about my laundry)
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first things first - this is Thanksgiving. While we celebrate the holiday with feasting and family, the point isn’t the food or the football. The purpose of the holiday is to pause our regular busyness and acknowledge the blessings and the goodness around us, so let’s be thankful.
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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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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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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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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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