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Editor's note: The Blue Ridge Relay is a long-distance endurance race held in the mountains of Virginia and North Carolina. Each year, teams from around the country run this 200+ mile race. The following is one man's story of his first Blue Ridge Relay experience. Written By JESSE KALUKA Disclaimer: I wanted to memorialize this …
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For the first time in our nearly 10-year marriage, my wife Allison and I have come to a bit of a fork in the road. That first sentence sounds way more ominous than it should, but hang in there. I don't mean to say we've never been at odds. That'd be impossible. But on our …
My grandfather - my dad's dad, the one I never met - was born during the first World War. He spent his childhood living through the Great Depression, then fought in the second World War before returning home from the South Pacific to his job as a carpenter. Every once in awhile I'll hear my …
I turned 33 years old last Thursday. Such a round, beautiful number, the symmetry is oddly comforting to me. It was the number Larry Bird wore when he played in the NBA. That's a thing I do, by the way. I refer to my age based on my childhood sports heroes. I celebrated my "Reggie …
It doesn't matter how patient you are, or how well you deal with big changes. Getting pissed on day after day starts to wear on a person. I'm not speaking figuratively here. I've literally been peed on more times than I care to count over the past few weeks. Mercifully, I think we are finally …
I don't have a smartphone. I sorta feel like it's time to talk about that fact. I own a phone manufactured by LG that slides out to reveal a lovely QWERTY keyboard. I can make phone calls with it, and I can set up to seven different alarms. And that's about it. I'll get to …
By KYLE MONTGOMERY In commemoration of the anniversary of my father going home to our Lord, please allow me to share a story adapted from stories told in his last days, at his funeral, and each year since. I tell you this story gripping a handful of items I carry in my pocket, items my …
If you missed the first post about my experimentation with Intermittent Fasting, read about it here. The following will make a lot more sense after you read that. I was told from the start that the first few days would be the hardest. I was also lied to. Don't get me wrong, the first few …
Despite eating a relatively balanced and healthy diet, I've continued to gain weight over the last three years. I attribute this to a number of causes: switching to a sedentary job, becoming a father, getting older (and thus my metabolism going from "slow" to "sleeping"), a variety of minor injuries (knee, ankle), and consuming waaaaaaaay too …
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Monday mornings. If you want, you could spend hours looking through countless memes describing just how horrific Monday mornings can be. Weekends never last long enough, and somehow you always find things to fill up the time you thought you'd have to recharge. But one Monday morning in August of 2015, I sat at home …
