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June 2025

My daughter's bucket list is color-coded, immaculately written and AWESOME
Sometimes she needs me to check items off. Sometimes she needs my money. Sometimes she needs both.
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The time I drove the world's fastest and most expensive production car
'When you crash it, are they going to garnish your wages for the next 12 lifetimes?'
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On freezing while climbing a majestic red oak named Willa
'It enriches your life. You learn something about trees and yourself.'
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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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Matt Crossman

May 2025

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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April 2025

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