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SPORTS FURNITURE UPDATE: GET COMFORTABLE WITH A BENCH

May 15, 2021 by

When sports furniture takes a turn for the worst, what do we do? The choices are limited: buy a new bench, re-do the old one, or just walk away and fuggitaboutit. The last option works better with exercise equipment that have second lives as clothes storage, not a weight bench. Buy a new bench? Not […]

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LIVE LONGER 2021? WHAT’S THE PLAN AFTER THAT

January 1, 2021 by

‘Live longer’ has been the mantra of mankind. Just a little longer, a little more, a little help to get there. Make the promise to do better if you’re given the grace of a longer life than, say, eighteen? You don’t have to believe it, but decisions made early have a way of reminding us […]

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BIKE RIDING THROUGH LIFE: YOU CRASH AND YOU GET UP

December 1, 2019 by

The big part of bike riding, of biking, is staying upright, staying balanced. Is it a stretch to say the same thing about life and the experiences we collect along the way. We take the good and the bad, and remember the bike we were on; we remember the path we were on and what […]

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A MAY WEDDING AND ONE LOUD, “I DO,” LATER

May 10, 2017 by

A May wedding in a Fir Cathedral and still in the woods thirty one years later. Doesn’t every married couple have a theme song? They should, and it doesn’t have to be the same song forever. Just make it a song older than your marriage. And no Beatles. This ought to be the common default:

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