52 Things I've Learned
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Make it Happen
May
28
Make it Happen
James can’t see.  While being blind could in other circumstances be a serious problem, here it is a semi-amusing inconvenience.  “Here” happens to be Portage, Wisconsin, where James, Captain 1 Brandon and me have spent our Wednesday nights since January.    Portage is achingly depressing these...
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Mush
May
10
Mush
I ain’t fancy enough to know the whole difference between memoir and autobiography, but I got titles for both.  Well, sort of.  Title for one and a half-finished working title for the other.  If it’s a book about trying to make some sense of the ride, the title will be “A Few Small Repairs.”  And...
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Quiet Time
Apr
15
Quiet Time
County Highway CS west of the Hardees at the I90 Loves truck stop may seem an odd place to ponder late-stage capitalism.  But I have some alone time and who knows how these ponderings begin.  Maybe because the Hardees shoe-horned into the corner of Loves never registered with me before.  The...
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