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Adam

Family First

About Me

I am 5'10" 180 lbs. I have an older brother who rocks and a younger sister who is amazing. My dad is a great public interest attorney and was a really good assistant coach on my pee-wee baseball team. My mom is an amazing organizer and she makes me laugh harder than anyone else in the world. I have a large and rich extended family with wonderful aunts and uncles and super cool cousins. I am a lobbyist on international issues arguing for liberal religious values. I love my work and the people I work with. I am working towards a world where people matter over profit, where conflicts are resolved through diplomacy, and where the least among us are the most in our minds.

My Interests

Playing family games; laughing; telling stories; reading novels; hiking; biking; pretending that I live in Mt. Pleasant; traveling; advocacy; social justice; being Unitarian Universalist; drinking beer; making popcorn and cheese; YouTube at work; giving circles; canoeing

I'd like to meet:

The Time Magazine Person of the Year.

Music:

John Denver; Joni Mitchel; Outkast; Michael Franti; Glen Washington; Paul Simon; Dixie Chicks; Jimmy Cliff; Coldplay; Ben Folds; Johnny Cash; Indigo Girls

Movies:

Super Troopers; Willow; K-9; Braveheart; Forrest Gump; Street Fight; Mystery, Alaska; The Lost Boys of Sudan; Murderball; Love Actually; the 40 Year Old Virgin

Television:

Arrested Development; Colbert Report; Daily Show; Bengals Football

Books:

Catch-22; Jeff Shaara; The Kite Runner; The Life of Pi; The Fountainhead; The Gospel According to Jesus Christ; Harry Potter

Heroes:

Meredith Schonfeld-Hicks, my co-worker and friend, who walked straight into the mens room after the Dixie Chicks concert at the Verizon Center and sat down and took a piss. On that day she had bigger balls than all the men she walked past standing at the urinals.

My Blog

Winter Sauna

The ice was a foot thick on our Minnesota lake and it took us the better half of an afternoon to drill our way through it, widening the hole to the size of a doorway.  As I fished the shards of i...
Posted by Adam on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 08:49:00 PST

The Gerhardstein Gingold Family

With my brother in Atlanta, my sister in Colorado, myself in DC and my folks in Cincinnati we have turned to e-mail to have family conversations... sometimes this can get quite interesting.  I am...
Posted by Adam on Sun, 24 Dec 2006 11:33:00 PST

Beefy Booty

It was a normal day in the office and the lunch hour was fast approaching.  I kept glancing up at my can of beef stew, wondering what Dinty Moore had in store for me.  After what seemed like...
Posted by Adam on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 08:20:00 PST

Aqua Fresh

After work today my co-worker Meredith and I headed down N st. to the public pool at N and 25th.  I changed into my speedo and snapped on my swim cap and finished off the ensemble with my trustee...
Posted by Adam on Thu, 10 Aug 2006 07:12:00 PST

Arrrrrrrrr....

I pulled my long black ski socks up to my knees and rolled up my darkest pair of jeans.  I put on my black beat up shoes, wrapped my white afghan with the frills around my waist, tied a...
Posted by Adam on Sun, 16 Jul 2006 07:43:00 PST

The Cancun Cantina

Its not everday you turn 24, at least that is what I thought as I walked into the Cancun Cantina (www.cancuncantina.com) outside of Baltimore on Saturday night.  So as I pulled out my ID and...
Posted by Adam on Tue, 23 May 2006 10:10:00 PST

Feeling... a lot

"I'm gonna miss you. You are the best one here.   When my Case Manager asks me who treats me the best, I tell her it's you." Said one of my clients tonight after I told her that I would soon...
Posted by Adam on Tue, 11 Apr 2006 07:23:00 PST

Holy Water

It was one of those perfect Boundary Waters' campsites.  A jut of land, comprised of ninety percent smooth sloping stone, diving into the lake and facing the setting sun.  There we sat, my l...
Posted by Adam on Fri, 24 Feb 2006 05:20:00 PST

Backyard Bliss

Backyards are magical places.  In the backyard of my childhood a lot of amazing things took place.  Here is a short list, enjoy. 1.  All of the neighborhood kids and my siblings attempt...
Posted by Adam on Wed, 22 Feb 2006 08:20:00 PST

I'm N Luv with a stripper

As I'm crusin' down the road in my chromed out Grand Caravan, my latest jam came on.  Ya'll know that T-Pain jam that is soon to be a classic: She poppin she rollin she rollinShe climbin that pol...
Posted by Adam on Mon, 06 Feb 2006 08:59:00 PST