And there it is-- another beginning of an end of a beginning. A new year's entry that straddles the end of our 2023 race season and boots us into 2024 if we're ready or not.

See you soon for Season Five!

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Explicitly American holidays like Thanksgiving are always a bit odd in Germany, but we make the best of it. It also always conjures up any remaining existential dread that's wandering about.

Yay. Holidays.

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And there it is... always sneaking around a corner, a deep, existential questioning, taking you down. Well, here it is, post-race-season-life-questioning-moment, on the page for all to see.

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Your kid only turns 18 once, and even when you try to do nice things, they don't always pan out. Cancelled races, visits to a legend's memorial, and endurance kart birthday parties, we made the best of it.

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Back at the laundrymat, reflecting on the end of Ellis's NXT Gen Cup championship, and finally realizing how you could be disappointed with a top 3 finish, and the beautiful and crushing moment of bearing witness to your child evolving their interior self.

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Once again outside the laundrymat, I'm wondering if I should write about 'what' or 'how and why,' and once again recognizing the parallel reality of existing in Germany or Hoboken, or anywhere else on the planet.

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It's clear in this entry I'm still working to regroup from the last few rounds of the NXT Gen Championship, make sense of what might be next, and attempt to set some boundaries on our time, energy and value.

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Two back to back race weekends, no trophies.

A series of mechanical failures made for some tough realities during this part of the season, and once again, my least favorite idiom--- 'That's racing!' launches me into a bit of a tirade on luck.

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TheWholeStory is a podcast about my family’s journey to follow Ellis’s singular passion for racing during a global pandemic. The episodes are audio recordings of the journal I’ve been keeping since the day we left home in 2020.

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