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  • Best Find Ever

    What’s the coolest thing you’ve ever found (and kept)?

    A Wednesday night many years ago, my son Max and I went for a run while my daughter played volleyball. About a mile into the run a beagle ran up to me and started playing. It was the cutest dog ever. The man who owned the dog let me play with her for awhile and soon went on his way.

    The next week, Max and I went on the same run and I seriously went looking for that beagle. Max doesn’t even like to run . And there was that beagle in the park and she ran up to us the same way as it did the previous week. Max and I played some more and agreed it was an extraordinarily pleasant dog. there was a connection there.

    I love beagles. Soon the beagle started to take over my thinking. It was no different than being in love . It was uncanny how she ran up to me in the park two weeks in a row.

    On the third week, we went on the very same run with my son and there was the Beagle once again. We played together energetically in the park. The owner of the dog, his name, was Sam. walked over and said to me it’s uncanny how this dog really likes you.

    He told me the story how he was watching the dog for his mother. She was ill in the hospital and could not care for Lucy.

    Sam simply asked me if I would like the dog.

    Lucy, Ghosty Pig, was one of the best dogs I’ve ever had.

  • Twice

    What’s the coolest thing you’ve ever found (and kept)?

    Twice while running

    I have found fully endorsed checks. One was for over seven thousand dollars, the other for 626.00 dollars

    I jumped through hoops to return it to the owners. I keep the memory of how non plussed each person was.

    It was still worth it.

  • Off Circumstance

    Who is the most famous or infamous person you have ever met?

    I was sitting in a cocktail bar waiting for a flight out of Minneapolis. I had just run a marathon the Day before. My date was there for the party. So I was tired and high on endorphins.

    And in walks the Smothers Brothers. I never knew much about them when they sauntered into the bar. They commanded the room. We had a beer together and told a few jokes. They were rather fun for those thirty minutes.

    I didn’t know they were famous until my date told me so. In retrospect I can see why they were famous.

  • The Question

    What was your favorite subject in school?

    What would your favorite subject be now? I would love them all except for Greek and Roman mythology.

    I loved any class where we read a lot. if I were to be honest, I wouldn’t know. I believe it was Literature. I sat next to this girl who was a tremendous artist. I always wanted to make art such as she did.

    She was someone I was glad to have met.

    Geometry was also fascinating as it was solving a lot of puzzles,

    But there are many schools and schools of thought. I particularly liked my Psychology classes as an undergrad. As a grad student they were all so fun.

    They had to be as I paid every single penny for the privilege of going to college and grad school.