farmers feed the world… i feed the farmers…
when you are sitting by yourself, watching your daughter’s hockey practice (#girlscanplaytoo) (I forever will find this hashtag humorous) … and a strange man plops himself down beside you and begins the conversation with “I don’t believe we’ve met”… you know you need to buckle yourself up for a wild ride… just when you think […]
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“modern love is the enterprise that everyone wants to be a part of, yet there’s a fifty percent divorce rate in round one and a sixty-five percent divorce rate in round two.” (Esther Perel) I was sick of listening to my normal podcasts that deal with running and vulnerability… so I ventured out of my […]
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I prefer to do things for other people than have them done for me… with the exception of the farmer… he can keep doing things for me and I have no guilt associated with that… so when my friends threw a party for my 40th birthday it was pretty overwhelming… you always hope your friends […]
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is our only opportunity to be an athlete when we are young and in school/college? or can we continue the quest of athletics as we age? should athletes only be the best of the best or does anyone applying themselves and working at a sport get to call themselves an athlete? I grew up […]
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the farmer got upset with his oldest son who is driving the grain cart for not helping combine drivers clean their headers out… he was just telling him the other night how it is his job as a cart driver to get out and help them… so yesterday, my sixteen year old, trying to be […]
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recently I was able to go on a trip to Squamish, BC… my teenage boys referred to it as an ‘old ladies hiking trip’… I of course was picturing it in my mind more like an expedition to Everest and I packed accordingly I booked this trip way back in January when the farmer was […]
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I bought a curling broom 10 years ago… I used it once and apparently did not impress enough to warrant a second use of the broom… but the nice thing was my children could use it once a year at their annual Valentines Day Curling Bonspiel… I thought this was the final curling bonspiel I […]
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