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Michelle Theall

A Penitent Carnivore Confesses

I could never kill an animal, but I sure do enjoy eating them. This hypocrisy gnaws at me every time I criticize a hunter or slice...

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I Will Run Over You: A Tribute to Coach Jarvis Scott

By Michelle on April 13, 2010 | Michelle Theall “I will run over you.” Coach Jarvis Scott drives the Texas Tech track van behind our team...

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Surf’s Up! Read The Wave

As seen in Women’s Adventure magazine: By Michelle on September 29, 2010 | Book Reviews, Surfing I opened Susan Casey’s new book, The...

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That’s Kid’s Stuff: How Old Do You Need to Be to Attempt a World Record?

By Michelle on September 3, 2010 | Fall 2010, Michelle Theall Where should we draw the line for children setting world records? In remote...

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Underestimating the Winter Warlock: How I Conquered an Icelandic Glacier

Underestimating the Winter Warlock: How I Conquered an Icelandic Glacier Final push up H16 I’m a forty-three year old woman and I’m...

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Kindergartener and Pre-schooler Expelled Because They Have Two Mommies

Part two of Teaching the Cat to Sit (the memoir I’m writing) begins with the statement, “Make no mistake. God is in the people, but the...

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Winter of my Olympic Discontent

It’s no coincidence that the US Women’s Ski Jumping team started petitioning the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for the right to...

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One plank or two? A snowboarder tries Nordic skiing and lives to tell about it…

Leave it to a place like Devil’s Thumb Ranch to lull you into the peaceful trance that says “yes” to everything. With over 6,000 acres of...

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Jonathan Edwards, Tiger Woods, and Prop 8

Jonathan Edwards and Tiger Woods. Those two names don’t make me think about health care or golf. Instead, especially when mentioned in...