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That time I left a me-shaped divot after crashing my bike
Or success means nobody has to call your wife from the ER
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Great job, honey! Please don't fall to your death!
Or when my daughters started to freak me out.
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Checking off a lifelong bucket list: Visit all 50 states
On traveling the country, eating gross stuff and almost freezing to death
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A note to my daughter upon her graduation
Baby please don't go. But don't stay either.
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Triathlon: What to do when the wheels come off. Literally.
Or a running diary of bad swimming, a worse phone call and imposter syndrome
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Dear Graduates: Eat pie for breakfast
Or: Live Well and Prosper (and Hopefully Long, But I Can’t Help You With That.)
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On finding river creatures so bizarre I think God was messing with us when he made them
Or my two days paddling the Meramec with my daughter and her friends
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Fighting loneliness, one adventure at a time
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