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Getting off track
Lessons from a much-delayed project
Jul 27, 2021
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Why write at all?
I’ve been grappling lately with the question, "Why write at all?" These little essays, dashed off in just about an hour each, sometimes feel like mere…
Jul 20, 2021
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And now for something completely different...
Great relationships are built on copious amounts of shared, belly-busting, teary-making laughter. It seems obvious, but the best friends are those you…
Jul 12, 2021
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Delving underground
Writing, drawing, and all kinds of creative work sometimes feel like mining for gemstones. Heroic amounts of backbreaking digging with pickaxe, hammer…
Jul 7, 2021
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Thirty three years later
A tiny boy born two months premature has become a rather less tiny man, sitting at a desk, typing, pausing for thought, resuming. It hardly seems…
Jul 5, 2021
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June 2021
Ego, self-discovery, and self-love
Children live almost entirely in their bodies, feeling and grasping and experiencing the world directly: eating when hungry, playing when bored…
Jun 15, 2021
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What I (think I should) like
(The Thinker in The Gates of Hell at the Musée Rodin.) I've always seemed to have an unfortunate amount of trouble telling the difference between what I…
Jun 14, 2021
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Moulting season
Writing can be therapeutic, but it can also be harmful: via negative self-talk that reinforces limiting beliefs, wallowing and becoming even more stuck…
Jun 14, 2021
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Sisyphus
A burned-out day in the life
Jun 1, 2021
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May 2021
The games we play
(Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Children’s Games, 1560.) Children's games have simple rules that are easy to grasp and easy to follow. Boundaries are clear…
May 31, 2021
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Getting back on the bike
Musings on this month’s essay project and creative work
May 29, 2021
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Life's a beach
Sunset at Liw-Liwa. Many of my happiest memories happened at the beach. Within our first few dates, a skimboarder I met in the city took me to her…
May 25, 2021
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