Chasing 42
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Job or Vocation?
There has been a lot of discussion about the ever-shifting labor market over the last three years. In the “before times”, unemployment was low and some folks had no problem finding work (unemployment rates, of course, don’t tell the whole story). The pandemic upended work environments for a lot of folks, laid bare the value […]
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Don’t Stop Learning
Every year during graduation ceremonies around the country, colleges and universities celebrate older graduates who came back to school to complete their degrees after decades away. The human interest story almost writes itself as we read about the challenging, interesting, and far flung lives of these individuals that took them away from campus and eventually […]
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Fighting Inertia
How are your New Years resolutions going? Most folks have already given up on them at this point in January so a) don’t feel bad if you’ve left them in the dust, or b) congratulate yourself for sticking with them. Regardless of your status, the push against inertia is a struggle for all of us. […]
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The Role of Belonging
The social and political landscape is arguably always changing but has perhaps done so in seismic ways in the past three years. We continue to struggle with a global pandemic (endemic?) that has isolated people in new and old ways. We continue to wrestle with the impact of systemic oppression on our education, beliefs, expression, […]
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Still Chasing 42
Did you miss me? Or perhaps you didn’t even know I was gone? I’m guessing the latter outweighs the former, but you’re here now, so let’s chat. I began this blog over a decade ago to document my then brand new running hobby. That hobby has since become a lifestyle and given me access to […]
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