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Finding the funny
When giving a fake name buys you the peace you want
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"I've done smarter things"
Don't you just love it when things just work out?
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When your doctor date steals from the garnish...
A story from the "bad date" archives—featuring Chad
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"Just one other guest..."—the possible Dateline episode
The unexpected stuff makes for way better stories
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Laundry Day in Rome
A favorite travel day started with a backpack full of wet clothes.
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Pre-Dateline Dating Intuition
The perfect-on-paper date I never saw again
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Be Braver Than Me
A small-town blood bank confession.
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SFTR: Crossing Actual vs. Imaginary Bridges
The substance of life comes through improvising our way through the unanticipatable scenarios—good and hard—we all face in an interesting life.
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Why Travel When It’s Cold
Or, the case for traveling without luxury. If I look cold in nearly every picture, it's because I was.
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Vignettes From the Human Experience: Relationships, the Goat, and "Being Active for Yourself"
A thoughtful question, tolerating asymmetry in early relationships, and even in the 1800s it didn't suit some to work for someone else
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SFTR: You Can't Plan for Serendipity
"Doesn’t that seem to be the way of travel, and life? That, while we do ought to be intentional about the structure of our lives, the best stuff—the…
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Friday Snippets #003: Cross-country Thoughts
Happenings on a 5-day cross country trek, a quote and a question, and 3 things to try for your intentional life
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