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Keep an eye out for the signup for MABA 2027. That will be coming soon. MABA is Make America Burpee Again, the annual challenge to do 100 burpees a day every day in January. Last year was Year 6, and 1,724 people around the world combined f...
The Perils of Stravanity
This is my latest for Terrain Magazine. They’ve been beyond great to work with. It’s almost unsettling how much better my pieces are after my editor, Shawn Donnelly, gets his mitts on them.
It started with Strava. I downloaded the app to t...
5.5 things I (hope) I will FINALLY learn at 55
I’m turning double nickel this month.
As in 55.
As in 55 years.
Halfway to 110. People who are 27.5 are half as old as I am.
When I turned 50 I wrote a piece about 50 things I have learned which was 10 times as long as it should have...
The Year of Falling on My Face
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The last few days I’ve been walking around my house singing about math. “The change in Y over th...
The OH, HELL YES FACE
I spoke to a high school writing class early this month. One of the kids asked me a question I’ve never been asked before: “Do you write birthday cards?”
What the hell kind of question is that? I wondered.
What he meant was (I think) do I...
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