You are only as old as your doctor tells you

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This next week marks my achievement of making yet another complete rotation around the sun on this ferro-nickel rock ball we call home. Coinciding with my annual trek, I have recently become painfully aware of the limits of my quickly dilapidating frame. Two factors contribute to my current tales of woe. First, in a matter of freak genetics, the males …

That old rugged chair

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I’d like to preface this entry with a disclaimer. If you are at all religious and/or are offended easily, you’d better stop reading right here. Are they gone yet? OK, I’ll proceed. This weekend I had the very fortunate opportunity to attend the wedding of two friends. It was a lovely small service in a quaint wedding chapel and that …

Imminent Death

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As a part of the regular gauntlet that is Irish Season, a new bringer of pain has been introduced by myself and friends to help justify our binging whilst nursing aging bodies that just don’t snap back after that two day bender like they used to: a 5K walk/run. Are we insane? Probably so. Will there be blood? Again, probably …

As I digress into progress

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This weekend while on a Pollo Regio run (if you haven’t tried it, you are missing out), I had the opportunity to catch a little bit of a segment on Studio 360about a conceptual art piece that Tino Sehgal is doing at the Guggenheim Museum called “This Progress.” The piece seems rather interesting, but what struck me is that the …