Monthly Archives: August 2018

Run right past the junkyard

Posted on August 31, 2018 by Christopher Cudworth

I have a social media fetish just like millions of people around the world. I wake up in the middle of the night and think, “That was stupid what you posted yesterday. Why even engage with that stuff?” Even my … Continue reading →

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Finding ways to focus on the positives

Posted on August 30, 2018 by Christopher Cudworth

Three nights ago with the sprain still fresh below the ball of my foot, I awoke to the throb of pain and swelling. For a few minutes I tried to ignore it, but sleep wasn’t going to happen like that. … Continue reading →

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Living with pain

Posted on August 28, 2018 by Christopher Cudworth

I hurt my foot while out watering the plants two nights ago. It was dark outside when I pushed open the sliding door and eased onto the stairs leading to the patio. As I stepped down the concrete block stairs, … Continue reading →

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There’s only so much sex the world can take

Posted on August 27, 2018 by Christopher Cudworth

We subscribe to Direct TV for our television programming. When we moved into our house, our connections were all from AT&T. But by some vagary of local wiring, the data was so slow and the Internet so patchy we had … Continue reading →

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When the track calls you back

Posted on August 24, 2018 by Christopher Cudworth

Those of us that ran track and field in high school or college feel quite at home doing intervals on a running track. That’s not the case for many people who did not have that opportunity. They seem to dread … Continue reading →

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Craning for meaning in this world

Posted on August 23, 2018 by Christopher Cudworth

The sandhill crane lay dead in a roadside ditch. I’d read about its demise on a Facebook post earlier that morning. A school bus driver had seen the bird while covering her route. She’d seen the crane family––mother, father and … Continue reading →

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Advice from Yoda about finding the Force in the swimming pool

Posted on August 22, 2018 by Christopher Cudworth

So our Master’s Swim leader Chris (See You In Barbados!) Colburn posted a video from this morning’s session that included a segment with me swimming along, one elbow high and the other, not so much.  As Luke Skywalker once learned … Continue reading →

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The Real Secret

Posted on August 21, 2018 by Christopher Cudworth

A few years back I read that cryptic little book called The Secret. It supposedly unlocked powers or energies from the universe based on intentional thinking. But this morning while headed out for a run through a fog-shrouded world, it … Continue reading →

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Dad unplugged

Posted on August 20, 2018 by Christopher Cudworth

It’s coming up on two years on October 17, 2016 that my father passed away. I served as his caregiver for more nearly thirteen years after my mother died from a combination of cancer and stroke in 2005. No one … Continue reading →

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Making life harder than it needs to be

Posted on August 17, 2018 by Christopher Cudworth

Yesterday’s blog offended a few people. The number of followers dropped by 20 overnight. It’s happened before. Whether it was the topic of excrement, my treatise about crap-spattering baboons or the political criticism leveled at certain political figures… that eclipsed … Continue reading →

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