Category: Random
Me talkin to myself
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Only three of us showed up for dance fit class this morning. Maybe because dance class is outside, and when it’s below freezing it’s hard to get motivated. Our instructor had a great lineup of tunes, though. Got to love a class where Russian hip hop precedes Elvis Presley. The air was so cold ice…
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Shout out to historian and newspaper columnist Patricia Ann Edwards for capturing this great quote in her history of Lorane Oregon, “Sawdust and Cider,” now sadly out of print. She’s quoting farmer and former Lane County Commissioner Oral Crowe: “This soil is so bad that a man couldn’t raise hell on it with seven naked…
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I am the perpetually novice skier. I’ve been downhill skiing since I was 19. I’ve been cross-country skiing since I was 28. But years (heck, decades) can go by between outings. Every time I do go, the downhill slope looks as daunting as the first. Then I ski down it and a hint of muscle…
