Ben Macdonald @BenMacsThoughts

Jake Paul’s inspirational win over Mike Tyson last night reminds me of the time I (14, very healthy) heroically beat Boston marathon legend Bill Rodgers (61, recovering from prostate cancer) in a Thanksgiving Day road race in 2009.

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Ben Macdonald @BenMacsThoughts

a year ago

Had a brief existential crisis looking through family documents and finding everyone else’s birth certificate but my own

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Ben Macdonald @BenMacsThoughts

2 years ago

I went to see Killers of the Flower Moon last night. Fantastic film. For me, the most surprising scene came about 10 minutes before the previews started started when, at 28 years old, I still got asked to show an ID to get into an R-rated movie.

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Ben Macdonald @BenMacsThoughts

2 years ago

Some of the boys (3yo) at work were mixing up the phrases “beat you up” and “knock you down” and were running around playing rough and saying to each other “I’m gonna knock you up!” No such thing as a dull day in a preschool.

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Ben Macdonald @BenMacsThoughts

3 years ago

The preschool is taking a field trip to the Children’s Museum today. As soon as we left the parking lot three kids excitedly yelled “This is the way to my house!”

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3 years ago

Almost accidentally sent an application for a proofreading job with a typo in it.

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3 years ago

Coworker asked if I could decipher a kid’s name on his project and said she thought she remembered him having better handwriting. I was the one who wrote his name on his project.

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3 years ago

My dreams of being remembered as the sexiest man to grow up in Sudbury, Massachusetts were crushed this morning upon seeing the news that Chris Evans was voted People Magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive