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everything seems uphill

“We know what we are, but know not what we may be” – William Shakespeare My mother died at 54 of pancreatic cancer. My father…

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unbounded

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust It started as a tiny kernel of…

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of light

“There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” Leonard Cohen Five years ago I wrote what I thought was my own…

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moved (an essay)

“Some journeys take you farther from where you come from, but closer to where you belong.” -Ron Franscell There is a substantial difference between moving…

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Gordon Darr: How a Sexual Predator Transformed My Life

In this episode, meet Gordon Darr, a victim of Dr. Robert Anderson, the doctor at the University of Michigan who allegedly sexually molested hundreds of…

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if it weren’t for that one time

“Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act. Action will delineate and define you.” Thomas Jefferson

I almost didn’t run. It was cold-gray outside. A kind of sudden winter day that callously forgot to allow for the acclimation to fall’s passing. I awoke sluggish and felt the weight of things to do. A lot of problems to solve–business and personal stuff. It would be far easier to skip the run, I thought. Just dive in.  Begin knocking off all the tasks facing me. My to do list I knew would take all day to accomplish. It made me think about quitting and simply going back to bed.  Try again tomorrow.

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