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The company holiday party: after three or four years of avoidance, I decided to be intrepid and go to mine this year. Big parties at which I have to yell to have a conversation with the person standing next to me aren’t generally my thing. Add to this my usual lack of a willing +1, and you can understand why my enthusiasm for attending in the last few years hasn’t been terribly high.
Growing up in an area I affectionately call “the country,” surrounded by acres of cornfields, with zero neighbors our age to play with, my brother, Chase, and I instead got to have a multitude of interesting pets to keep us entertained at different times over the years. But what did the roster never include? Cats.
When I stepped on the field with 349 of my coworkers at the start of this year’s Indianapolis Colts’ home-opener, it took me back to the first time I stepped onto a major football field nearly 20 years earlier.
In grade school, Field Day was an event I enjoyed because it felt like an outdoor celebration of the end of the school year. I was competitive enough to try hard and want to win, but I never excelled at any particular athletic skill. So, why would I want to volunteer for a grown-up field day? Redemption.
Aside from voting and writing to my representatives, I’ve never taken part in any activity that had any modicum of political activism to it. That changed in an easy, friendly way when I marched with 350+ coworkers, friends, and family in the Cadillac Barbie IN Pride Parade.
![Week 39: I Came to Dance [Score +15]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58b4c7cc20099e8b54a9ad11/1515462456981-OQJ8SBFQ41RI5XUCL6JU/SFholiday-103-official.jpg)
![Week 30: Downward Dogs, Feline-Style [Score +9]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58b4c7cc20099e8b54a9ad11/1508634681793-S01RFUXM9D353XC1DAFB/CatYoga-122-aem.jpg)
![Week 29: I Made That Star-Spangled Banner Wave [Score +10]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58b4c7cc20099e8b54a9ad11/1508114772854-XJV79WCA2SOXQN4KNQB6/ColtsFlag-103-banner.jpg)
![Week 29: Grown-Up Field Day [Score +14]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58b4c7cc20099e8b54a9ad11/1507596566069-9O2165EIENCVLCQXN21V/CorpChallenge-107-aem.jpg)
![Week 15: A Fun and Colorful Indy Pride Parade [Score +11]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58b4c7cc20099e8b54a9ad11/1497916719389-XNRQ6P7E3NWHNCA1L6D3/INPride-banner-aem.jpg)