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Ultimate Gladiator
A local fitness competition worked out well for expanding my fitness portfolio and adding more video
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Parking Boot
Finally was in a place with time to catch a picture of a festive-looking boot in the wild
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Still Not Going Anywhere
This is a follow up to https://madelinestrum.com/blog/2026/02/28/not-going-anywhere/ The first time I visited New York City was in March of 2002, only six months after 9/11. Seeing bikes chained to parking notices that were now missing tires and rusted out seemed like they hadn’t been trashed yet as a memorial and less like an issue of…
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Two Shopping Carts
Walking to a nearby hospital to donate blood, I crossed paths with these two shopping carts someone left on the corner. I did not really want to get closer in case someone mistook me for a thief, so it’s not the most dramatic picture. Stealing one shopping cart is reasonable, but two is excessive. It…
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Just Brooklyn
Coming down the stairs to wait for a train to board, I saw a man cleaning his feet on the subway bench while cops casually arrested a man nearby. I didn’t think I should take out my phone. It seemed like a task for AI. When I switched lines at another station, I took a…
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Rewarded
Finding the real location for a Sunday game in September was something else. Coaches gave us a street address instead of the park name. The address was for a city sanitation site… We went in circles and cursed traffic. We hustled. We made it on time. It was such a sunny day for a game,…
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What Happened to that Dog?
Asked Firefly to help me out and recreate what I saw on the street one day
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