Tag: me
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A Bad Day at Wrigley is Better Than a Good Day in Prison
When I say that a bad day at Wrigley is better than a good day in prison, my only prison experience is entirely based on The Shawshank Redemption.
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Reading right now
I don’t remember a time when I didn’t have a stack of books I was reading. I’ve been a library hound from a very young age. Even today, wandering the stacks at our local library gives me joy. Even if I don’t know what I’m looking for, there’s something about seeing so many books that…
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Daydream Believer
I daydream a lot – that’s how I get my ideas. If I’m sitting in a café, I’m not on my phone because I want to hear my mind. I think that those periods of small solitude that we are really losing are so important. — Patti Smith
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None of My Business
I’ve spent a lot of time and energy — many lost hours and years — worrying how people perceived me. Whether or not they liked me. Did I say something weird or was I misunderstood? Was I dressed appropriately? Was that joke weird or did they get it? I’ve decided that what people think of…
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Keeping Up With the Joneses
Just when I think I’m immune to keeping up with the Joneses, I wonder something like that. Is that what home ownership does to you?
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Read, Rinse, Repeat
There are a few books in my life that I reread over and over. Sometimes it’s ten or even twenty years between reads, but I always go back to them.
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Moving
In less than two weeks, if all goes according to plan, our youngest and I will be on the road, waving goodbye to California. Yipe!
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How Long, Tempted?
I was today years old when I learned something new about two of my most favorite songs ever.
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When you see a chance…
Sitting at the controls of the C-141 Starlifter, I peeked out the windows at the mountains below. I was flying a satellite to a California air base where it would be launched in a couple of weeks. There was only one teensy, totally minor, peculiarly odd thing about what I was doing. I wasn’t a…
