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A Real Life Friend Request
I don’t know if you know this or not, but no one these days – and I mean NO ONE! – asks to be friends in real life, lol… Facebook, Insta, sure. But in real life? In person? Nope. But this is exactly what you did! And it shocked me as much as it delighted…
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Old Paperbacks, With a Side of Ranch
Bookstores are my favorite places in the world. Usually I go just to relax, browse, and occasionally pick up something that looks interesting. Yesterday, however, I was on a mission. In a long and boring story that will be of interest to no one, I was forced to move my home office into a different…
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Back in the Game
You have the potentially dubious honor of being the first new person I’ve met IN person since the recent reboot of the Love Bomb project. Truth be told, we very nearly didn’t even meet today. Going out to public events is difficult for me for a number of reasons, and I had almost convinced myself…
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Namaste 🙏
You turned around at the coffee shop today and asked if I had a phone charger. I did not, but after breaking the news to you we still managed to have a delightful conversation where I learned you were a mother to a beautiful (feisty!) girl, but also a seasoned yoga instructor. I told you…
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Free Cupcake 🧁
On a hot and muggy day here in Virginia, we came across your stand at the flea market with 3 (very) grumpy kids in tow. I had forced them to come with me and do some exploring, but after 7 1/2 minutes I realized that was a huge mistake and now I had to do…
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Lunch at the Pier
Today I walked over to the Redondo Beach pier for lunch, something I’ve done many, many times over the past 25 years. This was the first time I’ve ever done it for work, however. It’s interesting, sitting in a spot you know so well but looking at it with a different perspective . . .…
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A Real Life Actual Phone Call
I never answer calls from random numbers I don’t recognize, but curiosity got the best of me when I saw “Honolulu, HI” flash on the screen, perhaps psychologically because I was hoping for a free trip there 😂 Well, you didn’t offer me a free trip to Hawaii, but you did offer me a free…
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Serotonin, Inked
On the plane yesterday I was in full “ignore everyone” mode, on my way home from a conference where I had been bombarded by people and noise nonstop for the whole workweek. Headphones in, eyes closed, the flight attendant had to yell at me to listen to the exit row procedure, and you had to…
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Let’s Give Hugs
I sat down to lunch today at a conference in Reno with a group of people I had never met. The first thing I noticed was your shirt: a cartoon Halloween(?) scene with a couple kids, one of whom had a facehugger from the 1979 film “Alien” wrapped around their head. I knew then that…
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Unexpected Space Force
I had the idea for this project about a decade ago, and had never done anything more than kick it around with Jay for a couple minutes every few years. But then this morning, in the most unlikely of scenarios, I was finally prodded into action by . . . you and your Space Force…
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