In April, a piece titled “Stop Instagramming Your Perfect Life” started making its way around…
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Dads And Dreams
My dad told me the other day he’d won a three-day Harley rental at a…
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Learning How To Say Yes
My friend Forest put this photo on Facebook last December, with this caption: It was…
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You Can Walk Anywhere You Want
I flew to Iowa to visit my grandmother in the hospital a couple weeks ago.…
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Why You End Up Somewhere Sometimes
You call someplace home, and if you think about it, there are probably one or…
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A Lesson From Fred
Six summers ago, a guy named Fred sat down across from me at a picnic…
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A Bunch Of Dreams, One Film: The Making Of ’35’
This past Tuesday, a film called “35” went up on Vimeo — it’s 5 minutes…
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The Pure Joy Of Fixie Dave
A couple weeks ago at a party, I saw Dave Nice for the first time…
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The Sometimes Awkward Process Of Finding Your Flow
The Sunday night before my first day of fourth grade, I rolled my black-and-gold Huffy…
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Make Plans, Not Resolutions
In a scene in the spaghetti western The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, the…
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A Handful Of Moments
My dad and I walked into Busch Stadium in St. Louis on September 4, the…
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The Importance Of Being A Lifelong Beginner
When you dismount a mountain bike going uphill, you end up doing a sort of…
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My Pal Mick, 1958-2012
My friend Mick’s heart stopped working last Sunday. He died at the age of 54,…
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The Three Bumper Stickers
“You know, I was just thinking that three bumper stickers changed my life,” Dan said…
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Do You Have The Stoke?
2:39 a.m., August 11, 2012: Packs packed, Chris and I are about to shut the…
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You Don’t Really Need To ‘Get Away’
Ever fantasized about being a fire lookout, or living in a cabin high in the…
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A Guest Appearance On The Enormocast
I’ve been a fan of Chris Kalous’ still fairly-new and incredibly rad podcast, The Enormocast,…
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Make It Count. Or Just Do It.
When did you visit Japan? Someone at the table asked Mike during our late dinner…
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Rappelling: Have More Fun
Climbing is fun. But at the top of a route, everybody gets all serious. Which…
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The Importance Of Big Dreams
I have a copy of this children’s book that I take everywhere I go. It’s…
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How Tough Are You?
There are many good strategies to use when running the New York City Marathon. Throwing…
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I Don’t Like It, But I Love It: The Long Day
I’m hanging sideways from the rope going through my belay device, body completely parallel to…
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Losing A Limb Does Not Equal Hitting The Brakes
The trail up and out of the South Park area of the Ouray Ice Park…
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The Toughest Thing
One of the things about telling stories is you think you should always know where…
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Staying Young Is The New Growing ‘Old’
Christmas Eve, 2011, I am going to throw up on a spin class bicycle.…
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Make 2012 The Year Of Maximum Enthusiasm
One Saturday morning last October, my friend Greg and I were running down the North…
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