We’ve been playing a lot of Dragon Quest Builders 2 lately. A lot. And the only comprehensive food recipe list I could find was in a huge spreadsheet that’s impossible to read on a phone… We had collected all but a couple dozen of the recipes ourselves prior to consulting the internet, which we were …
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Shorts story (or, how I lost my mind and then found it again)
You ever find yourself looking for something? Something you know exists, somewhere in your house, but you just can’t seem to find it… Until you think you’re just crazy? That was me, earlier this year, frantically trying to find shorts for my boys once things started to heat up here in Minnesota. My boys, they’re …
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2004: The year that changed my life.
As soon as the X-ray was put up, I knew. “I have cancer,” I thought. The X-ray showed only one lung, where two should have been. Then the doctor left the room. My brain spun out of control. A week prior I started having breathing problems. Stabbing pain in my chest, shortness of breath. Uncommon …
Nineteen cents.
Nineteen cents. Nineteen cents is what caused a grown man to lose his mind and start yelling at a cashier. A man who I had the misfortune of being behind in the checkout line. His total was something-06 and he (thought he had) handed the cashier a quarter. Cashier (took what he thought was) the …