This essay of mine also appeared recently on Donald Miller’s Storylineblog. com site. Does this bother you as much as it bothers me: A person is pushing a stroller, with the child facing the adult,…
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To put it simply, I guess I lost my focus. I was already a little anxious when the day began. A few of us were in British Columbia at a friend’s house, doing stuff…
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To put it simply, I guess I lost my focus. I was already a little anxious when the day began. A few of us were in British Columbia at a friend’s house, doing stuff…
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This was also posted on Donald Miller’s Storyline blog today. My wife and I had been putting off this task for some time. It was gross. That’s what we kept telling ourselves as we…
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I visited two world-famous golf courses recently. One was Torrey Pines in La Jolla, California, and the other was in Port Au Prince, Haiti. One caters to the wealthy, and one was taken over by…
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Just a few molecules. A few strands of greatness left behind. That’s all I really want when I go into a place like Musso & Frank. It’s a fine restaurant on Hollywood Boulevard; it opened…
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PART III — last in a series We didn’t want to go to France. We wanted to spend a couple of hours in an Irish town called Cobh. Apparently there was more than one…
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PART II Last month I introduced my driving adventure in Ireland with my daughter while she was studying there for the summer. I had requested a car with an automatic transmission, and the good people…
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Earlier this year I wrote about traveling cross-country with my son, with the false hope that our old Volvo would make it across the desert, over the mountains, and then live out the rest of…
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PART THREE — Conclusion On the Las Vegas Strip we looked for an anatomical sign, or even an astrological one, so that we would know whether to stay in Vegas and hope the Volvo…
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