Tag: Living
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Some Thoughts About Our First Child
About a week ago, my wife and I found out that we are set to become parents sometime around October 22nd. The news was somewhat surprising, although not wholly unexpected. I considered sharing some of the details with you, but I think the entire matter can best be summed up in a bit of helpful…
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Innovation in America: The TiGr Lock Story
I’ve been staying up inordinately late the past couple of nights, devouring the Suzanne Collins series The Hunger Games Trilogy. I think my approximate bedtime each night has been between 3:30am and 4:15am. I understand that moderation is the appropriate virtue that I should be seeking to develop – particularly with Lent beginning tomorrow. Still, there’s…
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The View From the Top of the World
Some eleven years ago, Vanity Fair contributor Bryan Burrough wrote a lengthy, if not macabre, article about the disappearance of a pair of mountaineers who were attempting to become the first individuals to summit Mt. Everest. The two were an odd pair. The leader of the 1924 expedition was renown British mountaineer George Mallory, who was…
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A Dispatch from Taos
It’s a drop past 11AM here in Taos Pueblo. The temperature has languidly paced it’s way into the 50s. A cool breeze makes its way beneath the carport here at my Grandmother’s house. It’s mid-October, but wood stoves burn in the distance, and the smells of piñon waft through the air as it has done…
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September in the Rain
The leaves of brown came tumbling down, Remember, in September in the rain. The sun went out just like a dying ember,That September in the rain. –Rod Stewart, September in the Rain It’s been a wet few days here in Tucson. But not even our Indian summer monsoons could compare to the tears that rained…
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