Checking In
Richard IngramIf you've caught yourself on autopilot, this was written for you. I share short personal essays about life, trying repeatedly to teach me something. They start with a story and find a thread worth pulling. (Warning: Humor is my coping mechanism.)
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Mile
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Drowning people are difficult to save. To earn my swimming merit badge, I learned and practiced drills for saving people from the water.
I was taught to stay focused on the person while swimming towards t...
Great
Some poems are long, like The Raven. I’m okay with those. I don’t know what makes them poems and not just stories. The other poetry, the regular stuff, I don’t really get it.
It has to be blunt and direct. Maybe I read them wrong. Accordin...
Aqua Net
With duct tape, six soup cans, an empty lighter, and Aqua Net hairspray, I built a cannon that fired a tennis ball. I don’t know how high it went, but it easily cleared our two-story house by a lot.
I cut the bottoms off all the cans, exce...
Sausage
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Smoked sausage with mac and cheese is one of my favorite comfort meals. I know it is as unhealthy as it is delicious. I grew up with it. When my mom made it, I would distract her a bit and sneak a piece of...
MySpace
I was friends with Tom. Everyone with a MySpace page was friends with Tom. I demoted Tom to carefully select my Top 8 friends to display on the front page. There was friendship politics involved in jockeying for Top 8 status.
The website s...
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Husband, father of four, friend, owner of 4 pups. Avid reader, listener, writer, and perpetually curious. Person with a corporate job (but I get to study psychology in the wild).
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