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Sy, part 2 (or, Sh*t My Dad Says)
For the holidays, my father sent my siblings and I a plastic sleeve with DVDs of photos burned from his vast collection, labeled “PIX”. In lieu of a greeting card, I found a printed out sheet of 8.5 x...
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Blueprints of the Afterlife
Now that grad school apps are over and I resume normal work and/or bodily functions, I’m trying to take stock of where I am, in terms of my writing. This past week alone I’ve started and abandoned two...
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Unglamorous: becoming a better reader
Okay, that’s it: I can’t take it anymore. These piles of books are now almost as tall as my computer screen, and those are just the ones on my desk, the ones I mean to read soon, the ones I’ve been...
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Like skydiving
This is how skydiving must feel. Flinging ourselves out a door that was not built to be opened at this altitude, committing to a graduate program whose classes start in only three and a half months,...
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Day 1: Tacoma to Missoula
After running an errand and gassing up, we hit the road at eleven. Stopped for lunch in Ellensburg, WA at a hundred-year old diner called The Palace. Old place; fresh food. Took a detour to check out...
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Back to Skull
A Writer and Soon-to-Be-Teacher Rereads To the Lighthouse and Rekindles his Old Romance, Only this Time Wiser, More Experienced, and More Sincere I. Journey to Skull Island The first time I tried to...
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Why is this night different?
I got up this morning feeling confused, displaced. Angie woke me sometime after my 7:30 alarm. “Time to get up,” she sang. She placed a mug of coffee by my nightstand. This is usually my job. I’m the...
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Back to School
Well hullo there stranger. Been a long time. been a busy year. (nostalgic/wistful … the closest I’ll come in today’s column to acknowledging the painful event that has shaped said year) So, an update...
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Veni, Vidi, Docui
So teaching went pretty well, I’d say. I was predictably nervous before class on Thursday, made more so by the fact that I had a late afternoon class, and all day long in Tompkins Hall I was racing to...
View ArticleDay 3: Yellowstone to Cody
Is there no wifi in the plains? Don’t elk need email too? I still have to write about today’s journey, so for now I’ll give you a brief synopsis of our day in Yellowstone: 1. Got breakfast in West...
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