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Make the most of your extra days As I sit here in a frigid office morning, I’m also tired of on a February morning, I have COVID. We’re in the midst some thoughts. of another family/office For starters, I wish I would scare, and if that wasn’t have remembered to switch enough to worry about, I the thermostat from air back had to hitch a ride to work to heat before leaving for the this morning because my car RANDY CAPPS weekend. Cold fingers make won’t start. randy@johnstonnow.com for error-prone typing. So, it’s a little tough to find I’m also thinking joy at the moment. about Mexico. Sure, the sun If my years of journalism have taught didn’t shine the entire time we me nothing else, I’ve learned perspective. were there, but it’s hard to beat And in this case, things could most warm weather, an in-room rum certainly be worse. dispenser and evenings listening to I could have not had heat at home last Hootie and the Blowfish and night. I could have had an hour commute a few other '90s bands to work today for a job I hate, with people perform live out on the I don’t like in a town I’d rather not be in. patio. I could have been like many of us and On this Monday lost someone to the pandemic.
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Or, it could have been me. It reminds me of a column I wrote about Maggie Dixon in 2006. She was the coach of Army’s women’s basketball team who died at 28 of an irregular heartbeat a month after coaching her team to the NCAA Tournament. I wrote about her as I was a couple of months away from being 30 and about how, instead of worrying about what’s going wrong, I should focus on what’s going right. Sixteen years ago, I wondered at the end of that column what I would do with my extra days in this life. Since then, I’m still married to the perfect girl. I got to watch my son grow up and we all started a little magazine. It’s not a perfect life, but it’s a better one than I deserve.
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