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Why Shoes?

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Every day possible I walk my two dogs for 90 minutes through nearby Cherry Creek State Park. They get to run around and exchange sniff-sniff pleasantries with other dogs. I trudge along in my Timberland boots, battlescarred veterans of a million all-weather miles. I think when I walk and today I started wondering,”How many shoes […]

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Real Stuff vs. Invisible Stuff

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I just got back from a trip to Jacksonville, Florida and Hilton Head, South Carolina. I was in Florida for meetings about a consulting job and movie financing but Hilton Head was more important; I drove there from Florida to help my daughter Gracie pass the final two days of spring break since her sorority […]

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Pole Dancing in the Olympics?

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With the Winter Games winding down in the blink of an eye it will be time to refocus on London and the Summer Games of 2012. A couple days ago I was reading the paper when my wife interrupted with news that pole dancing is being pushed as a new Olympic sport. I laughed and […]

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Sweat Dancing

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Sweat dancing is a spontaneous participation sport endemic of wedding receptions and overcrowded rooms with high humidity and poor ventilation, with cover bands loudly blasting songs from the sweatees’ formative years. The igniter is booze, the supreme catalyst an open bar. From it shall flow mountains of jiggles and fountains of sweat. Sweat dancing is […]

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