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You’ve probably often heard someone say (if only in the movies)
“It’s only business. Don’t take it personal.”
If it isn’t personal, it isn’t important. All the important things in life are personal.
That’s what this is all about.
Blog
2023/2024 Review/Preview
First the 2023 Review Run 500 miles: Fell short of the goal. Only ran 400 miles. Become fluent enough in Italian to read a couple chapters of an Italo Calvino novel: Fell short of this one, too. Did become marginally more fluent in Italian. Rather than a pair of Calvino chapters, I translated the first …
At the Pound
She pulled into the parking lot of the animal shelter. The lot was really just a crumbly mess of decayed asphalt, ringed by a dense band of weeds. The asphalt itself was punctuated with only slightly less weeds than what surrounded it. The shelter was a squat cinder block building on the outskirts of a …
Ryan
The house was dark and still when Ryan woke. He blinked a couple of times and pondered whether or not to get up off the floor. He rolled over to think about it and rested his chin on his left forepaw, scanning, taking in the dark, silent living room. Robert lay in his bed nearby, …