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An Ode to American Airlines
I have a confession to make. I am no longer a virgin. I have now flown in First Class. And I did it at coach prices. How’s that for cool? I’ll tell how it happened, but first a brief aside about how great it is to be married to just the right person. It’s relevant
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Heaving a mighty sigh of relief at last
I feel like I have been holding my breath for the past two weeks. Tonight I was finally able to exhale, and it feels really, really good. I had to have a biopsy on my left breast two weeks ago (almost). I had a small lump that looked pretty much like a cyst but had
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The fine art of barfing and peeing discreetly
Part one of our multi-part getting-ready-to-go-on-our-first-trip-together-to-Europe series: We are starting serious planning of our European vacation in September. The first part of the trip involves running a marathon in Medoc, in the Bordeaux region of France. We’re spending five days there, three of which will be devoted to marathon activities (primarily tasting wine, then tasting
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Graduation Day
We are in Michigan this weekend for the start of our on-the-road-June travels. Chuck’s niece is graduating from high school so we came out for the event. It is always bittersweet to attend events like this: my mother died when I was so young, and my whole family situation was so fractured that it can
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Riding down the highway, looking for adventure
We took the motorcycle down to Temecula for an overnight trip this past weekend. It’s a perfect distance for my fragile ass (which gets quite sore after about two hours non-stop sitting on the back of the motorcycle) – about an hour and a half of easy freeway and/or blue highway driving. We went down
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