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Finding a place PDF Print E-mail
Written by Brian Olsen   
Thursday, 25 June 2009 15:22
Location: Salt Lake City, UT

Over the past 6 weeks, I’ve been traveling the nation, exploring our cities, getting a sense of their people and character. What has struck me most is that the American city is alive.

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Dates (and my theory of self-actuation) PDF Print E-mail
Written by Brian Olsen   
Wednesday, 04 March 2009 13:04
Location: Salt Lake City, UT


I have an uncanny ability to remember where I was and what I was doing on such and such a date in the past. As an athlete, I had a very predictable life. Life follows the seasons, the snow, and the circus of training camps and competitions. Each year was similar to the previous.

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Inversion PDF Print E-mail
Written by Brian Olsen   
Monday, 26 January 2009 15:10
Location: Salt Lake City, UT


An inversion is a meteorological phenomenon, but it also describes my life now vis-à-vis the past 10 years.

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Any which way will do PDF Print E-mail
Written by Brian Olsen   
Wednesday, 19 May 2004 00:00
Location: Jericho, VT


For training this morning, I was going to hike to the top of Mount Mansfield, which is the tallest mountain in Vermont. Unfortunately, the trails were closed due to erosion concerns that could result from walking on them when they are muddy. Not to be deterred, I parked my truck in a lower, secret parking lot, and decided to just run up the bed of Browns River. 

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