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I am terrified that I will not measure up. That my best will not be Best Enough, Or even close at all. I am terrified that I will fail Life. Or my son. I mean, its one thing to fail me. I’ve had a lot...
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I am Wonder because when I reached a point in my life where I had to choose between the safety of having answers or the integrity of asking questions, I choose the question. Every time. It’s something we’re all born with, but that most of...
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  Mushroom hunting is my favorite outdoor sport, and nowhere in northern California are there better hunting grounds than in Mendocino County. Starting in late October, after the first fall rains and continuing into February, the forests of Mendocino County are blanketed with mushrooms. Black...
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“The seasons come and go, summer follows spring and fall follows summer and winter follows fall, and human beings are born and mature, have their middle age, begin to grow older and die, and everything has its cycles. Day follows night, night follows day. It...
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Last night, I took my ten-year-old son to see the PG-13 rated movie The Martian. We had just been reading the book, and were thrilled to see something so full of science and math and innovation come to the big screen. We put on our...
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this is what i know this morning post coffee pre wine a little over one year ago i set out to do something because i was in deep pain. it took the death of robin williams to shed a massive light – a fucking klieg...
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September 15, 2015 Dear 2007 Marie: Today is our eight-year wedding anniversary. Crazy, right?? That was the first thought that popped into my head this morning when I woke up, and it made me smile. Such good memories! You are dressed in a beautiful wedding...
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This is the story of my twenty-fourth year of sobriety, told together and in three parts. (You’ll see. There would have been columns, which is infinitely more satisfying to me, but Blogger isn’t set up for binary sophistication. So – the parts go together, even...
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“We can discover the wonders of nature rolling in the brushes down by the riverside.” — Sugar Magnolia by Robert Hunter and Bob Weir   I’ve always had a strange relationship with the Grateful Dead. I’m a bit too young to have grown up on...
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