Author: Tripping Raul
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Eight hours minus 5 minutes
The drive was amazing and the truck was a trooper. Eight hours = four hours to Grand Junction; four hours home. Precious time all alone to listen to my music, stare at the white stripes of the road in the nighttime and the dried-up countryside during the day. Eight hours…
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In case you’re wondering what I’m doing this weekend
Sorry your weekend won’t be more fun. What am I doing this weekend, you ask? I’m escaping, actually. Running away all by my lonesome to the Western Slope to see my parents and brother and maybe my sister. I’ll be going hiking with my friend Darla, but will otherwise be…
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Another Tammy Faye kind of day
You know, I really kind of like Tammy Faye Bakker. I saw The Eyes of Tammy Faye with the brilliant M.E. Sprengelmeyer when I spent the summer rooming with him in 2000 and it really made me see her differently. Having said that, it’s no excuse for me to look like…
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Done
I am done caring about people. I mean it. I’ll take care of myself and everyone else can just bugger off.
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All domestic and stuff
It’s Sunday, Nov. 18, and I want it on record that I got up, dressed, called my sister and my bff Ellen, went to the grocery store and stocked us up on healthy food — some of which I plan to take to work to share so we can attempt to…
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It’s really not so weird that I’m so nice
Having been openly critical of humans who have become overamorous and misconstrued my kindness and support, I imagine my unbridled enthusiasm at the prospect of helping an individual out in any way can be a bit disconcerting, perhaps confusing. I can’t blame anyone who hasn’t lived my history for thinking, “Well,…
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So, like, I’m a chick!
The skirt was a size larger than I needed and I knew it when I bought it but I thought it wouldn’t matter and now I’ve lost the receipt and the fabric looms simply too large on me so I’m in a position where I must figure out either how to return it…
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These are the times that try men’s souls . . .
Oh, do let’s not go into the man vs. woman thing on this. I don’t consider myself a gender so I’m not going to change it to “men’s and women’s souls,” so there. That was Thomas Paine, by the way. I became familiar with the quote through the Kingston Trio…
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Look away! No, don’t!
Although it was great to see old friends the past weekend, it reminded me of something I wish I could tell all men of any merit. Don’t look away! It is common to cast your eyes upon the person across from you and if that person happens to look back, it…
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Mornings
I’m having a ‘Jesus! Why am I still here?’ day and Iiiii’m sorry, but Iiiiiiiii can’t help it. I look at the city and the sky and the streets and they’re lovely, beautiful, really, even with or maybe because of the lost and needy and homeless. Yet I still find myself…
At Least They're Committed 