Driving | Driving
May.02.2013
I'm not a good driver.
I'm easily distracted. I talk with others, or to myself, I sing, I look around and I'm forever finding myself lost. I forget to drive, to focus on the road, and get where I'm going.
Life is a journey, to be enjoyed in reflection, only if you reach a...
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May.02.2013
Flashing headlights jolted me out of my driver's haze. The one you fall into when covering the same ground day after day. When you reach your destination, you wonder how you even got there because your mind was not behind the wheel, even though your body was.
First thought:...
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Jan.25.2013
(1) Amen.
(2) Yes.
(3) Well, everybody does. But if you put your tire-chains on and drive a little more carefully, probably not today...
(Image uncredited, likely due to subsequent multiple-vehicle crash.)
-- Earl Merkel
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Jan.14.2013
I don’t like to be late but I am not averse to getting lost. Which, when I stop and think about it, seems to happen with some frequency. I don’t do it deliberately. But I also do not pre-plot every step and turn when heading somewhere I do not know, and I don’t have a...
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Dec.13.2012
First morning of some small freedom. Math 311 ended on Monday, with a giant oozing dribble of a test that left me hurting for days. Maybe it was the pressure of doing too much this semester. I am prone to taking on too many responsibilities, always with the sense that I am not doing enough....
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Sep.02.2012
The vacation treadmill took me and my wife 940 miles in four days via the driving treadmills. Seven hundred twenty of those miles were on Interstate 5, or as the young people call it, I5. My rear end is now shaped like my car seat. Ironically, my pants fit better.
I5 follows the Siskiyou Trail in...
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Aug.12.2012
My twenty one year old daughter asks.
I reply, “sure!”
No comments mom, please.
No reactions.
No negative energy gestures.
No heavy breathing.
Not even gasping.
No nothing that’s going to turn me into a bad mood.
I don’t want to be stressed driving.
Ok mom?
Guess I’ll play dead on...
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Aug.07.2012
Hosted by Youngjoo Ahn and Courtney Cheng, today’s show focuses on the impact of drunk driving and underage drinking in our third installment in our series of Tough Talks. Reports from Ryan Sim with Pro Parley, Artsy Gifts with Youngjoo, and Book It! with Courtney. Our hosts also...
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Jul.09.2012
Driving up to Silverton today for my job and passed a Suburban with Texas plates. I felt smug and superior, being native and all to mountain driving, mixed as most of us are in Colorado regarding Texas vacationers. I allowed myself the briefest sense of superiority, acknowledged that it felt...
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Jul.02.2012
Transportation: a vital part of American culture.
We live in suburbs, in subdivisions, in houses.
Houses that run along streets, avenues, courts.
Streets that connect to roads, intersections, highways and interchanges.
We travel inside our private soap bubbles;
windows closed tight, as the air...
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