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Your body is not the problem
Everyone around me is shrinking, and this is starting to feel like an extinction event. Please give me some grace here as I make some difficult statements that reflect my reality and may not reflect your lived experience. Everyone around me is shrinking. At first it was just celebrities and influencers. That was hard enough!
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That time I thought I was going to die on a water slide
I wasn’t very excited about traveling over spring break this year. I’m not a good traveler to begin with, and it felt like last year we did too much traveling too many times. This trip actually went quite well, and I think it’s because I was the man for most of it. Let me explain.
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Report on Resolutions, Month 3
Recall that I have yearlong nutrition/fitness goals which renew every month, and an additional resolution theme for each month. My additional resolution theme this month was writing, and yeah… I would say this was a big failure. I blame Past Casey, who we all know is the worst and definitely the cause of most of
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Autism Strikes Again
I brought the car to the car wash today, the really nice one that does all the interior work for you. This is a task that my husband used to do all the time, but now that I have the car 99% of the time the task falls to me. Apparently I have never actually
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Sick, Again
I am sick. I was sick all weekend, that kind of sick where you’re miserable but not actually sick enough to just stay in bed. I woke up feeling even worse this morning; I thought at first that it was just the time change. I often feel a little sick if I get up too
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Random Life Update
We are experiencing Second False Spring here in Minnesota, which means that it’s currently 50 degrees (fleece weather! my favorite!) but also there is snow in the forecast next week. Despite the inviting weather, I am currently occupied by my favorite afternoon activity: shutting myself up in the den with both doors closed, the space
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Report on Resolutions, Month 2
It’s time for another report on how Casey’s resolutions are going. Recall that this year my resolutions are twofold: This month I am happy to report that I actually met my fitness and nutrition goals. And, as if the universe was trying to double down on the message, my last workout of the month (on
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ASL I Learned in February
Fine (can be used as a response to “thank you”) Interpreter Teacher Sick Where Phone Help (as in “how can I help you?) Hot Cold Lunch Delicious Lucky Sorry Stop Wait Squirrel Science Music Dance Fire Clean Doctor Color Broken Printer How do you sign…?
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Out of Place
I had a weird Saturday. We had a nice family trip to one of the local Asian supermarkets. Our goals: to find some snacks that we fondly remember from our trip to Japan last summer, and to acquire mochi donuts. The kids and I were discussing this Asian market and how it compared to one
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All the lifetimes
One thing that has surprised me about life is how many different lifetimes I am actually fitting into this one life. I am only 42 years old, but here are, approximately, all the lifetimes I have lived: 1983-1992: Pre-divorce childhood 1992-1998ish: Post-divorce childhood 1999-2002: High School 2002-2006: College 2006-2012: Young adult years in New York