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Most of the songs I have learned to play over the last year have been composed...

It was my friend Raquel who first alerted me to the snowstorm that was to occur...

I can't remember exactly when I started learning Mandarin Chinese, but I found an old post...

About a month after completing the French and Chinese trees on Duolingo again, I completed the...

"Bittersweet" is the first song I learned in 2021 and my second Jim Brickman cover, the...

Have you read more than one or two pages on this website? If so, thank you!...

Among the things I've been doing during the pandemic has been studying multiple languages, and the...

A couple days before the merciful end of 2020, I received a message from my Pin-pin...

The year 2020 started well enough. We had drinks at the Magic Rat before moseying over...

We had just commenced our Spanish Conversation videoconference on Zoom when my friend Matt told me...

Have you ever wondered what might happen if you were called in late one night to...

During this pandemic year, I wasn't planning on doing a race for the rest of 2020....

Early on during the coronavirus pandemic I resolved to take advantage of not having to drive...

Did you know that there are so many combat veterans struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)...

The other day I received a postcard from my friend Mike. From prison. "All the times I've...

In 2019 and 2018 I rode the Buell motorcycle into the Poudre Canyon to view fall...

As described the blog post entitled "How I Spent My Time During the Coronovirus Pandemic," one...

Despite today literally being one of the darkest days I have witnessed, this morning was actually...

As if 2020 wasn't already challenging enough, seemingly the entire western United States has been in...

Considering that the bane of a cyclist's existence has traditionally been flat tires, it's been truly...

David Lanz is a Grammy-nominated pianist whose "New Age" music was popular in the late 1980s....

Growing up, the favorite sport of my family was neither cycling nor running. It was also...

It's probably a safe bet that not too many people will be calling 2020 as "one...

I woke up this morning with the whiff of smoke lingering inside the house even though...

It's been 12 years since my #1 lifetime adventure---the 2008 Tour Divide---and 10 years since the...