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At the age of ten, I discovered there was another way of intermingling with my imaginary friends, and that was through writing.  A new world was suddenly opened to me where I can create and bring things to life on paper. Because of my hearing impairment, my overall understanding of grammar was a bit lacking to say the least, and I knew this.  And because of this, I kept whatever I wrote hidden away.  I wasn’t ready to share with the world.

Not yet.

In the meantime, I…

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Curiouser and curiouser.

As far as the eye can see the doors stretch in an endless colourful sea, all so very different neither uniform nor alike. Some catch the eye more than others being gaudy and opulent, designed to draw the eye and the beholder like a magpie to some…

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My Elegant Solution

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I was a born power walker. With long legs and an East Coast sense of urgency, walking fast came naturally. It was my exercise of choice, preferred mode of transportation, and an early foray into meditation.

The year I moved to Boston, I must have logged 1000 miles walking around what I came to know as the Charles River treadmill. The wind in my hair, the chop of the water, the intersection of Boston and Cambridge, and the energy of the other people – walking was…

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Back when I first started "running", my father gave me his beat-up copy of The Self-Coached Runner. There's one line in there has stayed with me for years about how your mental endurance will run out before your physical endurance. I suppose it's a variation on coaches telling their athletes that winning a game is more mental than physical, how players "psyching" themselves up is at least as important as warming themselves up. But specifically knowing that your mind will try to get you to quit… Continue

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