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Matt and I just returned from a trip to Omaha to visit my family. Usually our trips are fairly random with regards to timing, however this trip was deliberate. We went specifically to attend a fish fry. I’m not sure how commonplace fish frys are in the rest of the country, but in Omaha it is [...]
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My latest read was Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen. I imagine you can predict my review semi-correctly when I tell you I started this book exactly 2 months ago. The story is an historical novel about a man’s life in the circus. It’s told in a series of stories by the main character, Jacob Jankowski [...]
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I ran in my first ever St. Patrick’s Day Dash this morning in downtown Seattle. This 4-mile jaunt is one of those Emerald City events that everyone needs to participate in, at least once, before calling themselves a true Seattlite. To many (as I’ve seen best said in one article) the Dash is everyone’s reminder [...]
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My friend, Rebecca, and I went shoe shopping this weekend. Not for just any kind of shoes – running shoes. Not just for any kind of running – marathon running. We’ve decided to run a marathon. The Chicago Maration, to be exact. The inital idea was really Rebecca’s. Over a recent happy hour, Rebecca told me [...]
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