The Difference Between Inspiring and Shaming

The Difference Between Inspiring and Shaming

You are a singularly unique individual. Just like everyone else. I don’t dig this whole special snowflake syndrome where everyone needs to be handled with kid gloves. Some people are awesome, and others just suck. If you go through life thinking the world owes you...
Why I Love to Run

Why I Love to Run

Okay, I know it doesn’t really look like I’m loving it in that photo, but it was during my Boston Marathon qualifying run, which felt like my entire body was getting a root canal. Extreme endurance races notwithstanding, I dig being rapidly bipedal, and...
Fuck Dark Chocolate

Fuck Dark Chocolate

Fuck dark chocolate. For about a decade the sales of dark chocolate have been soaring, regardless of the fact that it tastes like someone melted down a bunch of brown crayons then let them solidify into bar form. Why the boost? A senior VP from Hershey said in 2006 of...
Are You a Temporarily Embarrassed Fitness Model?

Are You a Temporarily Embarrassed Fitness Model?

I never finished reading The Grapes of Wrath. It was too depressing, and the vernacular Okie language gave me a migraine. Give me a break, I was 15 and my brain was 5% eat, 5% sleep, and 90% breasts. So I Cliff Notes-ed the final and got a C. It wasn’t until decades...