There are all kinds of scientific studies that say laughing will make you less hungry, or laughing will help you lose weight, or laughing will keep you healthy. But where is the scientific study about what my laugh does to other people? Does it help other people, or does it hinder them? I mean, wouldn’t …
Author Archives: Kurt Gailey
Dog Lake
Distracted by nature. That’s not so bad, really, is it? You can be distracted by other things, worse things, unnatural things. The cure for all of those is: get out and ride. Anyway, on this ride, the point was to race the sun. We ended up coming down the mountain in the dark. On a …
Armstrong, Park City
I’m really not sure if it’s named after Neil or Lance, but the Armstrong trail is a fun one. I actually heard about it from a doctor friend of mine. He kept raving about the trail. Then I tried it (with another doctor friend of mine), and found out he was right to rave. The …
Pulling Out of a Slump
That’s all it takes really. Look above. A picture of a blue-eyed kitten is a great way to deal with the doldrums, the blues, the slump, the blockage, the writer’s constipation. So many names for a low-down mood. So many ways to define sorrows. Why do we do it? Why do we spend so much …
Of Length and Bread
Longer than a Twitter tweet… …shorter than a Facebook rant. A web log post could be long, but it doesn’t really need to be. Length is determined by the wordiness of the blogger, and sometimes by the subject. There are subjects that require more explanation. Can you tell the story of the wolves without first …
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