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This Time Last Year: April 2009

This April, I’m still coasting from a trip back to Seattle in March, will be spending Easter in Heidelberg, and will be cobbling together my last minute training for the Hannover Half. Last April? I had just returned from a two-week study tour, spent Easter weekend in Scotland and was wrapping up my training for …

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Five Senses Friday no. 21

Seeing: * the crews boats back out on the water. I could watch them row up and down the canals all day long — there’s something totally mesmerizing about the synchronicity of their upper bodies moving and their oars gliding through the water. Hearing: * the soundtrack from Into the Wild. Wasn’t so impressed by …

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Five Senses Friday no. 20

Since I’ve missed out on a few Five Senses Fridays, this one incorporates my sense memories from the past couple of weeks. Seeing: * old family photographs. (You’ll be hearing more about this little project later.) * the last pages of My Name is Red. * mein Schatz’s suntanned face upon his return from Mexico. …

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