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It has been 13 years since I retired my Tales From the Glitter Gym series. I wasn't planning on adding any future editions, but I need to add at least one more. Let's meet The Old Guy. There is this...
Read more →Last August I posted Using the Power of Story for Fat Loss, which I think is one of the more important posts on this site. The short version is that if we can wrap the complexities of an effective...
Read more →In previous posts, I mentioned how this year I've been thinking a lot about the role of stories when it comes to fat loss and diets in general. Stories provide easy to understand compelling...
Read more →Several years ago I was at a potluck and one of the dishes was a vegetable soup. A friend of mine who had become a vegetarian had the soup. She enjoyed the soup and seemed to be in good spirits and...
Read more →I saved this story for Father's Day even though it happened a few months ago. The only background you need to know is that I don't have any children. One day I was at the Fred Meyers grocery store...
Read more →Today I was finishing up my hill sprints when I noticed a man standing on the other side of the street watching me. He was smoking a cigarette. I chatted with him for a minute or so about sprinting...
Read more →Two years ago I read the travel book Vagabonding, which I enjoyed. I was pleased to discover the author had written another book. !Marco Polo Didn't Go There: Stories and Revelations from One Decade...
Read more →Everyone else seems to be reading this book now. Me too. !Outliers: The Story of Success Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell impressed me. This guy can bundle massive amounts of...
Read more →The Drudge Report just linked to a story in my old hometown newspaper stating that 1 in 10 Ohioans now receive food stamps. This reminded me of my one and only food stamp story. While in college I...
Read more →This story has been moved around my different web sites since 1997. The introduction was written in 2000. Do you have a story that you tell that is so unreal that as the years go by, even you start...
Read more →Now that I've acclimatized to Seattle, I decided to go for my first hike of the year on Sunday. Since all the hikes look the same out here, I went for my nearest favorite: West Tiger (aka Exit 20)....
Read more →It must have been July or August of 1994. I had just moved to Tampa Bay from Columbus in June. For a few days I had two friends down from Ohio. Being the host the of a new town, I took them for a...
Read more →In the post Are These the 14 SuperFoods? I confessed that I don't like oranges. Some of you already know this story. For the rest of you, enjoy the tale of how I lost my love for oranges during the...
Read more →On June 22-23, 2000, I got to drive in a Presidential Motorcade. This is the original story written on June 24, 2000. The phone rang in our apartment one Sunday afternoon. My girlfriend answered. I...
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