You’ve likely been in this situation before. Some friends or family invite you over for dinner, and when the eating is finished, they invite you into the living room to sit down and relax. Then some jackass turns on the television. God help you if you’re with some people I know and the news is [...]
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Anyone who keeps tabs on me will know that about three years ago I started running and by winter of 2009 had lost forty pounds. I’ve kept all this up, but for all the work I was doing I felt I just needed an extra edge. I was working too hard to be yet a [...]
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A few months ago I watched the HBO series on John Adams. Politics aside, he was a fascinating man, though his wife Abigail (gorgeous name, that) strikes me as an even more compelling character. Late in life, so the HBO depiction goes, Adams takes a walk through a field with one of his sons and, [...]
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