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Dancing with wolves (Fri, 08 Apr 2022)
Last Friday morning I was sitting on a ferry as it headed south in San Francisco Bay. Pete and his two kids occupied seats in front of me, and I followed the line of the hood of his gray sweatshirt hanging in a flop at the back of his neck to the angle of Marlo’s ...
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Always Trying To Work It Out (Mon, 14 Mar 2022)
On Friday afternoon I returned an indigo blue Dodge Ram 1500 Classic to the Alamo Rent A Car just south of St. Louis Lambert International Airport. I wrote about this Hydration Tank last week — you can find it here — and the fact that I have no link to an archive of my writing ...
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All the wrong turns brought me here (Wed, 09 Mar 2022)
Three days ago I flew into St. Louis, Missouri, and after getting settled into my rental car began playing a game of Let’s See How Many Things I Can Inventory in the Next 90 Minutes and How Detailed I Can Be About the Description of These Things Without The Use of A Writing Utensil. I ...
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“Hi, I am the one that needs you.” (Mon, 30 Aug 2021)
ASK A QUESTION I want what you have or at least what you said you had as of May 21, 2021. 43 days of sobriety. I want to know how to do that. Cold turkey? Meetings? Therapist? I just need the timeline. What made you decide? And how many days til I start feeling like I can handle it? How many white-knuckle days ...
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My COVID-19 Experience (with video) (Fri, 20 Mar 2020)
The first thing I’m going to say is that what I am going to describe to you today has nothing to do with any of the news I talked about or teased yesterday while talking to those of you who joined me for Quarantine Book Club (I AM NOT GETTING MARRIED, Y’ALL). Oh, and, yeah. ...
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