Monthly Archives: April 2011

#265 The smell of really, really clean air

Your lungs deserve the best. Escape the parking garage, forget the fast food fumes, and run away from that photocopying daze in the cubicle farm. When you get way out in the open, when you’re sailing over the deep blue … Continue reading

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#266 When a deadline is extended unexpectedly

Talk about a win-win-win-win. • If you’re already done! Brother, you just earned some breathing room. Sit back and smile as everyone sweats it up next week and pat your own back for being on top of your game. If … Continue reading

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#267 Car dancing

Get down, get funky, get loose. When the tunes starts bumping and your car starts thumping it’s time to dance it off in the passenger or back seat. Slam the glove compartment, roll down the windows, and give these moves … Continue reading

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#268 Getting a good locker in high school

Scott got screwed. Back in ninth grade my friend Scott was assigned a locker buddy named Kyle who played trumpet in the school band. They shared a thin locker down a dark and dusty hallway outside the Boy’s Changeroom. Not … Continue reading

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#269 The sound of a golf ball falling into the cup

I was the Mini Golf King. Yes, back in those blurry late 80s there wasn’t a course that could trip me up. Slippery slopes, puddle patches, shady piles of windswept maple keys were all no match for my well-practiced whacking … Continue reading

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#270 Dogs with jobs

Dogs are lazy. There, I said it. And you know it’s true. Look who’s sleeping on the couch, look who’s drooling on my socks, look who’s wandering around in circles. Dogs, my friend. Dogs, dogs, dogs. And sure, maybe the … Continue reading

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#271 When the music player’s shuffle reads your mind

Sometimes it knows exactly how you feel. Sometimes it knows exactly what you need. Sometimes it plays a song that is exactly AWESOME! – Email message – “The beauty of sunsets is well-documented. Poems have been written on it. Photographs … Continue reading

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#272 The Stone Age

Props to the past. The Stone Age is the term describing the giant time period from 600,000 years ago to 8000 years ago where our earliest ancestors first made tools from stone. Unless you happen to be an immortal wizard, … Continue reading

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#273 Breaking into your own place after realizing you locked yourself out

We’ve all been there. Whether you left the keys in your car, let a dorm door slam behind you, or just came home late without a key, we feel your pain, we feel your pain, we feel your pain. Now … Continue reading

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#274 The first warm day of Spring

I went to school in a small town on a big lake. Sharp winter air bit our cheeks year round as we skidded across slippery slush sidewalks under sweaty bundles of wet scarves and snow-covered hats. Yes, fingers froze and … Continue reading

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