InnerTeub

When my oldest brother was a middle school teacher, his students used to tease him about “Mr. Lewis’s Happy Memory of the Day” – the point in each class when my brother would go “You know, when I was a kid….” Along those lines, please enjoy these two true yet random and completely unrelated stories [...]

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I have a tattoo on the inside of my left ankle. It’s an M-dot symbol, the official brand of Ironman Triathlon. I got it three or four days after I got married, at a tattoo parlor in Key West, in the middle of a hot and humid June afternoon. My husband  — a word that [...]

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No worries, it’s fine: you don’t have to take me up on my advice to Kristin Armstrong’s blog in Runners World, because I’ll just keep posting excerpts here. (Apparently.) From her latest: I read something about how elephants are trained.  When they are young they are tied up by one ankle with a heavy chain. [...]

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Day 101: Presents from Lucy!!!, a photo by LizScott on Flickr. I met Lucy in … 2003, I think. No, that’s right: 2003. I was started grad school and moved into a house in an “up and coming” section of DC (which up and came right after I left, and now I can’t afford to [...]

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- I spent a lunch hour a few weeks ago coping with a bad day by registering for running races. Here’s what on tap: Trail 5k April 21st Greenland Open Space 8 miler (trail) on May 5h BoulderBoulder 10k on May 29th And possibly the 10 mile Tough Mudder in Beaver Creek in June. I [...]

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Manitou Springs used to have a “Scenic Incline Railway” – a cable car that would take people the eastern face of Rocky Mountain, to appx 8500 feet. This railway shut down in 1990, but the track (the “Scar”, so called because the mountain looks scarred with the tracks were laid) is still there. The track [...]

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A text message conversation with la Stepdaughter, circa like 6 months ago-ish: In case you’re wondering: I firmly believe that introducing her to Tim Riggins and Logan (Veronica Mars, not pictured texted, but still high ranking in our affections and yes I am conflicted about that given his concerning tendencies but I’m working past it [...]

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Lots on my mind the past couple of weeks, so much so that my only real coping mechanism has been to go home from work every night and watch four or five hours of The Vampire Diaries. It started innocently enough. My stepdaughter mentioned she loved the show, so we downloaded the first couple of [...]

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So, I’m not really a fan of March. It’s hard to dress for (20 degrees yesterday! 70 degrees today!), usually kind of drafty, bright enough to pretend it’s spring, but not warm enough for green grass, so everything is kind of brown and gray and … bright. I mean, be cold and wintery white or [...]

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My uncle died a few weeks ago. It was sad (horrific, unimaginable, tragic) but not necessarily unexpected. He was diagnosed with cancer last April and it was up and down until it was mostly down, and then, as these things go, it was over. I liked my uncle quite a lot, and I’m sad for many reasons [...]

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