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Under the Influence: Sometimes you have to pee in the yard
We are all making up rules to a game we didn’t sign up to play.
Under the Influence: Seek diplomacy and travel outside the bubble
I am well aware that travel is a privilege, but these kinds of connections can be made anywhere, and are equally important.
Under the Influence: Being a slow loser is better than being no loser at all
If you are one of the vast majority of Resolution Makers who vowed to lose weight, exercise more, or become healthier in the new year, I’d like to introduce you...
Under the Influence: Alexander’s got nuthin’ on me
Like Alexander, I had a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.
Under the Influence: The holidays are weird as hell
The conquering Christians were smart enough to ease heathens into this new lifestyle of gild and guilt, so they allowed them to keep many of their traditional celebrations … with...
Under the Influence: Stress? I’m not stressed. I’M NOT!
If you read this column regularly (which is to say, you’re my mother), you may have noticed that my last column was a rerun. I missed a deadline.
Under the Influence: Walk the walk and hopefully learn
I was sitting at a busy intersection in a snowstorm when they walked in front of my car.
Under the Influence: Patience is a virtue … and a struggle
I am the most impatient person that I know. Which really only makes me question the rest of you. I mean, really?
Under the Influence: The bane of my existence … jiggly bits
This column was originally named Running Under the Influence, an ode to two of my favorite things — exercise and booze.
Under the Influence: Well played, corn. Well played
Let’s go to a corn maze, they said. It’ll be fun, they said. Once again I find myself trudging through a dusty field in the unrelenting September heat (thanks, global warming!)...