happy new year! :)

. I know who my real friends are because at holiday parties, they not only build my vision of gingerbread house (check out those sweet marshmallow bricks!), but then decorate them, also at my behest, with a frosting bicycle. . (I would live here! Except that I would probably die …

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Ode to squeaky brakes

Oh, brakes. How much I cringe at you when I try to squeeze you inconspicuously and, instead, with your uncommonly loud squealing, terrorize some hapless pedestrian crossing the street, causing them to jump in fright. How much, sometimes, I wish that the ubiquitous tale of the squeaky disc brake was …

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Athleticism vs body size

This morning while I was running around at Mt Tabor — a super wet, totally perfect, puddle-splashing run that made it feel like I had the whole park to myself, just me and the kinglets and thrush — I was thinking about this book I’m reading, A Beautiful Work in …

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