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Concluding Delights: A Memoir
I am late with submitting a draft to my writing group, so I’m going to also publish it here and pedal out some rage on my cyclocross bike. For some reason, clicking “Publish” here helps me revise and move on … Continue reading
Rough and Tough Buttons
“Successful outdoor observation is not about possessing extraordinary skills, but about choosing to notice certain things when others do not” (31). ~Tristan Gooley On the evening before a backpacking trip, my friends and I like to car camp near the … Continue reading
Slush Pile
Dear Editor,* It’s highly likely this piece will end up lost in your slush pile. What to say to an editor of an anthology about traveling during a year when international borders were closed? How to differentiate my story from … Continue reading
Chapter 3: A Memoir
The trouble with goals is that you’re constantly working toward what you used to want. ~Sarah Manguso from 300 Arguments I keep this notebook of the memoir I’m working on, and it has sat collecting dust for the past two … Continue reading
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Chapter 2: A Memoir
This week I spent my morning writing time working on the second chapter of my book, “On and Off The Trail.” I’ve decided to ditch Medium after learning there is a paywall, and I’m not actually down with (wait for … Continue reading
Chapter 1: A Memoir
Ten months ago, I wrote this pretentious somewhat overwrought blurb for the book that I was going to write. Ten months later, I have a draft with some reasonable heft, and nine chapters. So here goes. The first assignment of … Continue reading
At Capacity With Words
This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no room for fear, we speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal. ~Toni Morrison For some … Continue reading
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Finishing The Thing
Bovary is not exactly racing along: two pages in a week! Sometimes I am so discouraged I could jump out a window. ~Gustav Flaubert Last weekend, the mister and I went on a hot date to the public library. We … Continue reading
Like A Pentimento
It’s like finding that the sky and the sun are always there and that it’s the storms and the clouds that come and go. ~Pema Chödrön Lately I’ve been reading my old work journals. I keep my writing about work … Continue reading
Unreliable Narrator
“When you’re from somewhere else, you think there’s a promise to California. I don’t know if it’s some cellular thing–like your ancestors in the wagon train only made it as far as Ohio and you’re completing the journey–or it’s the … Continue reading
Spoke & Hub 