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Death ridges, dangling salt, and zinnias for miles.
Man, we could not have asked for better weather last week. While friends and family in the PNW were suffering through a heatwave, we had highs in the 70s and a copious amount of rain. I actually wore a hoodie a couple of mornings, but even though Dunkin’ is already selling pumpkin spice lattes, summer…
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Deep roots like the banyan.
In the days following the devastating Lahaina wildfire, my mom texted me this pic. That’s me and my brother, riding a cannon in Lahaina, sometime in the late ’70s. There are four cannons total, located on Wharf Street across from the Old Lahaina Courthouse. They’re a block from historic Front Street and within a stone’s…
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Corn pops and sweats.
When we decided we wanted to move to Wisconsin last year, but long before we had the means to do so, I booked a camping reservation at Devil’s Lake State Park for the end of May, 2023–10 months in the future. Classic case of manifesting. Act like you’re already living there and the Universe can’t…
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Happy birthday, Rachel and Alex.
Somebody’s got a birthday today. No Time For Kings is 12 years old! Geez Louise, in a few more years, it’ll be old enough to drive. Books grow up so fast these days. When my novel was published on August 9, 2011, it was probably the proudest accomplishment of my life. Not counting kids, wife,…
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Whatever floats your goat.
Tara and I were tossing around ideas for things to do today. Kayaking was one possibility. We discussed going to the movies to catch Oppenheimer. In the end, we settled on just hanging out at home because we needed a day to recharge. Not our bodies or minds. Our electronic devices. Seriously, when I got…
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Expiration dates aren’t expiration dates, but woodchucks ARE groundhogs.
I was reading a blog post yesterday in which the author, Kari (aka Writer McWriterson), talked about how she never checks expiration dates in grocery stores. Kari, by her own admission, “blindly trusts corporations to put things on their shelves that haven’t expired.” Eternal optimist though I may be, I absolutely do not trust corporations…
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