My stories
I Do Understand
The well-conditioned guilty Catholic conscience of a former altar boy does not let moving to a foreign country get you out of Sunday Mass. Challenge accepted—find a church, with other people in it, and if Mass isn't in English simply follow along.
Empty pews. Language barriers. I was worried about the wrong things.
The Other Kind of Silence
Sometimes the best way to notice what has been there all along is to remove something you’ve always taken for granted. Three seemingly unrelated experiences showed me something I never saw coming.
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Pitch-the-Penny Baseball
We didn’t just play baseball. A penny. A die. Baseball cards. A few rolls of masking tape. That was enough to build an entirely different world. Nearly 50 years later, the rules are finally being documented.
The story of Pitch-the-Penny Baseball and the first officially documented rules of the game.
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Sidewalks | Train Maps | Pickup Trucks
How long can I go without owning a vehicle? The answer may lie in how I want to live.
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Highway 61 Revisited
When you travel with no plans, everything feels like the right thing because there’s nowhere else you’re supposed to be.
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Life As A Liftie
Most people spend their lives trying to move up. I spent the winter discovering what happens when you step off the ladder.
This is a story of trading titles, meetings, and deadlines for skiing, strangers, and a different purpose.
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