One Less Car

Since I moved to Texas, I’ve decided to embrace the new flatness of life and take up biking.  While living in Utah I was a bit intimidated by the mountain passes and single track trails that my friends powered up and barreled down respectively.  But Texas presented new challenges to the biker: we call it [...]

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I don’t want to grow up

I have a milestone coming up, a birthday that makes me feel like I’m starting grown up life.  In a week I’ll be 25.  I don’t think I’m getting old, but honestly time has started to go so fast.  I remember when I was in Kindergarten and a week seemed to drag on for an [...]

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40 Day Habits

I’ve noticed lately that I’m really pushing back from all things “supposed to.”  Things filled with obligation, not necessarily commitment,  have really started to grate on my nerves.  As I strive to live a life of intention, I’ve realized its important to strip away all the worldly imposed life elements.
Why do I work out?  Because [...]

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24,640

I’m obviously feeling quite analytical, my posts of late deal with numbers.  I’m a nerd, we’ve known it for years.  So the title of this refers to the approximate number of steps up Mt. Olympus in Salt Lake City.
It was exhausting and humbling.  We were both sluggin along, but loved every minute.  We talked about [...]

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KISS

So I’m currently reading a book that urges us to take our diets back to a time of slow simplicity. Its quite amazing, and I highly recommend picking up a copy of In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan. He has a simple mantra-”Eat food, not too much, mostly plants.” So his [...]

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Learning to think

So as a product of a hodgepodge of public educations, I have an aching feeling that I don’t know how to write well. I’ve decided to remedy the situation by publicly learning. I need to be held accountable to my new goal, so hopefully I’ll find someone to read this.
I want to shape [...]

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