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We dropped Pete off at college Saturday. This time, it was at Temple University. Temple was Pete’s first choice coming out of high school, but he just missed being accepted then. He transferred after the fall semester of his sophomore year, and will pick up his studies at Temple’s School of Tourism and Hospitality Management.…
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Here’s a Bubble of the front of the dorm at the MPP compound outside Hinche, Haiti. Front of building (bubb.li)
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Editor’s note: Something I started writing when I awoke very early one morning in Haiti’s Central Plateau, trapped between my mosquito net and my racing thoughts. 17 Pilgrims Seventeen pilgrims on the road from Port-au-Prince to the Central Plateau. Haiti is life lived on the road, in full view. It is a hot, dusty iceberg.…
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I completed a weeklong service trip to Haiti on Saturday, and my head is still trying to make sense of all I saw and heard. Someday, I’ll try to turn the experience into a cogent post (or 10), but for now, I’m just going to share 17 photos and explain them as best I can.…
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That’s bobsledder Steve Langton, who has a vertical leap of more than 62 inches—from a standing start. It looks like he’s messing with gravity. More about him—and his freakish ability—in this @MensHealthMag post.
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You know, I used to laugh at this clip of Allen Iverson (see bottom). Iverson, one of the all-time gamers, explodes in a season-ending press conference when he’s asked about his—how to say this?—inconsistent practice habits. He says practice likes it’s a cuss word. He says it about 20 times in 142 seconds. “We’re talking about practice.…
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“Scarcity captures the mind.” That’s one of the key statements in a fascinating book I’ve been “reading” recently. (I’m never sure what to call what I’m doing when I listen to a book on Audible: “reading” or “listening” or “consuming”? I could use some guidance.) Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much, by Sendhil Mullainathan and…
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Very cool app, Bubbli, let me create a 360-degree “bubble” of my yard on this bitterly cold, blue-and-white day. See below: Snow Day (Bubbli)
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Used to be, in my teens and 20s, working out meant the gym and weights, the heavier the better. I still have a bench downstairs, but the amazing thing to me (now 48) is how little I use it—especially in conjunction with my barbell and weights. These days, when I use weights, they’re mostly dumb…
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From the Friday before Christmas to New Year’s Day, this holiday season has been eternal. That’s not bad, but it’s been looong. And for the sake of our waistlines, it’s time to move on. So we’ll leave you with some photos (see below and above, where Kelly and my mom are together and looking good…
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Virginia told me she wanted to invite a few people over before Christmas. She told me it wouldn’t be a lot of people, that nobody would accept our invitation. Well, she was wrong. Almost 40 people joined us for a very fun but not small at all holiday party on the Sunday before Christmas. It…
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I’ve been thinking a lot about heroes lately. This summer, my colleague Andrew Daniels pitched an idea to tell a story a day for a month. I liked the idea, and we tried to come up with a subject: what would be complex enough, evocative enough, and interesting enough to keep people engaged for 30-odd…
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