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Driving a deteriorating car through slushy winter weather as night time creeps in is emotional. I don’t feel ready to pay big money for car repairs and every time the thoughts of breaking down and being foisted upon a mechanic shop flow through my mind, another pothole appears in my path. I drive tensely, with…
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I have a thought about professional sports: the teams take themselves too seriously. “Professional” is a rotten word. It means “no fun”, “lame”, and “obsessed with protecting oneself”. The Buffalo Bills sat Josh Allen after one play yesterday while I was in attendance. I knew it was coming, but it still stung. I wanted to…
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I didn’t mean to make a series out of this, but I am back in Tim Hortons writing on my laptop. The short kid from yesterday took my order (medium coffee, one cream) with a snarl and I almost apologized for my presence. Now, I sit in the corner as this other customer speaking in…
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I am the only person sitting inside a Tim Hortons café as the two angry workers get bombarded by the drive-thru line. “We’re too short-staffed for this shit” says the shorter confident one as the bagel and iced cappuccino orders pour in like waves. The tall anxious kid takes the orders and the shorter one…
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January 1st: the beginning. The time of lofty goals and delusions of grandeur. Many of the things we plan this day do not last a week. It is sad and true. Hope springs eternal though, like the beginning of a new school year or sports season. It always comes back, this feeling of hope and…
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I’ve always been okay with New Years Day being a holiday, but if the powers that be changed their minds and made it a normal day, I would understand. I get it… we are flipping the calendar over to a new year (hence the name!) There’s nothing to celebrate, though! What happened on this day?…
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I asked my mother if, while watching my sister’s dog, I had to spend time with the four-legged friend or just feed her and walk her. She texted me that just feeding and walking is perfectly fine. She added “I don’t think they have a concept of time.” That made me chuckle and wonder, well…do…
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We are getting blasted by wind right now. Cold, nasty wind. There’s some snow included but the blacktop of the road is still visible. The gusts are stunning. They are strong enough to rock your car back and forth and they can pick snow up from the ground and create a whiteout. It was a…
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I need to learn Spanish if I want to visit Tijuana. Well, truthfully, I don’t need to learn it. The people there probably know Spanish and English, at least the ones selling things to tourists. However, I think using Spanish in Mexico opens the place up way more than only speaking English. It is also…
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It is Christmas today and my mind is filled with thoughts of Tijuana. I want to go, and I want be there now. I was surprised to learn that it is the second-largest city in Mexico. I wrongly assumed that was Guadalajara or Monterrey. Tijuana has a bad reputation for being a dangerous border town,…
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