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Things my wife says

So yesterday while putting together yet another pair of endtables with my wife Renee, I asked her if she had seen my legs (she had the box with all the parts in it). She turned to me and says in a deep throaty pirate voice Aye, shapely enough to make any man quiver! Renee Raiteri [ READ MORE ]

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On Being Foreign

This article in the economist is pretty helpful in understanding how we’re living our lives these days. I owe Denmark a giant apology. Spain as well. Recently I figured out that one of the main reasons life has been so difficult over the past 2 years has been that we are foreigners. I [ READ MORE ]

1130 sunset again. Solctice s…

1130 sunset again. Solctice stay your advance. I must savour the love of the sun. [ READ MORE ]

Get me younger Quick.

Okay, so its been longer than a week since I went running. So I thought I’d try to take a class of yoga to stretch me out and prepare me for this morning’s run. It was a beginner class, morning Yoga. So beginner that it was “Free” for all to come. [ READ MORE ]

My First Ever Real Race

Golly Gee! Results here I ran a race. Before I saw the sign for the 1st mile marker I thought I was doing pretty good. My pace was up, and I felt like I was about half way through. After that disappointment I resolved to stop thinking about how far I had to go [ READ MORE ]

SmokesBeerandWork are also Drugs

Running is a drug, but smoking, working, drinking…these too have powerfully addictive qualities. I went 5 days without running last week, then we did our thing with the Texas round-up which involved a little bit more training but then I went off to Seattle to work, and only managed to actually run [ READ MORE ]

Running is a drug

So, just back from Copenhagen, where I rode my rented Bike everywhere (I wonder if Markus – my friend there – ever returned the bike for me, cripes, that would be a lot of rental days unused!) Anyway. So being back on the bike made me feel POWERFUL. I wanted to replicate that feeling so as [ READ MORE ]

Driftwood and Saltlicks

For a vegetarian I seem to have a hard time resisting barb-b-q. We went down to Driftwood from Austin today (about 15 minutes) to one of the coolest places I have seen in Texas. It was a river/creek that flowed through an amazing ranch.campground where they’ve been hosting the “Old Settler’s Bluegrass [ READ MORE ]

Moving to Denmark

I’ll skip all the this is my blog and here’s what I want to say. We’re moving. We have to get rid of most of our stuff! I’m going to put a bunch of ads on craigs list but I am certainly going to try and point those ads to here and put up as [ READ MORE ]