Boehmcke's Human Condition

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Boehmcke's Human Condition

The Wrong Fit

It is 2009. I am 25 years old and begrudgingly working at a nonprofit in midtown Manhattan full...

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Looking for the Secret To Marriage

Try.  It’s a very simple word. Three letters. One syllable. Small, but powerful. It’s the...

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The Skin of a Redwood

I spent a lot of time this weekend around the redwood trees in Northern California. I had...

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Do I Really Want to Be Here?

It’s January of 2006. I have just graduated from college and I am sitting in the courtyard of a...

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3 Lessons From Hiking the Grand Tetons

By the time I got to Wyoming I was feeling a little overwhelmed. Whenever I get that feeling,...

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The Stories We tell Ourselves

I had a pretty significant realization recently while sitting in the dentist’s chair. It is not...

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Missing Where You're From

Do you miss it? That is the question my fiancé and I kept asking each other about New York. We...

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Learning to Drink: The College Years

By the time I got to college, I knew almost nothing about alcohol or how we people socialized...

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Why Are Men So Angry?

The comedian Kumail Nanjiani was on Ellen recently talking about the plot of his latest movie...

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What Does a Birthday Mean?

I am writing this on my birthday. As of today, I am now officially in my late 30s. Which, as...

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When Mom Went Back to Work

When I was seven years old, and my sister was ten, my mother went back to work. But it wasn’t...

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Wedding Planning According to Other People

My fiance and I had only been engaged for three weeks before people started asking us where we...

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The Cold Basement of My Youth

The humidity in Phoenix hit 40% this week. And while that isn’t very high as percentages go,...

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Learning to Drink: The High School Years

After my early interactions with alcohol, I didn’t drink. Didn’t even try. I wasn’t interested....

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A Memory I Still Don't Understand

I have tried several times to tell this story. Each time I have failed. My stilted attempts...

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Your Own Voice: The Instrument You Barely Hear

I remember the first time I heard myself on camera. I was in high school and I was just coming...

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Why Are We So Afraid of Therapy?

My senior year of high school I found out on a Sunday night in October that a wonderful teacher...

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The Modern Bachelor Party

Whistler, Canada is full of good looking, laid back residents used to the somewhat more...

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The Fear of Forgetting

When I look at the number, it seems ridiculous: 339 notes in 11 different notebooks. Those are...

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How Do You Make Friends As An Adult? Part 3

The cowboy. The loner. The Alpha. The rugged individual. Our culture’s immediate memory serves...

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