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A Man Named Brownie
I wrote this a week ago at the fair—now it is over for another year. And I have thoughts about that too, about it being over and how strange it is to…
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When You Forget What Someone Looks Like
And how things are always changing
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Going About the World, Finding Wonderful Hours
On the end of summer and feeling found again
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August 2023
Our Family's 65-Year-Old Tradition
We’re entering into fair season, and I was trying to figure out how to give some of you who are new here a feel for what these five weeks in August and…
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So You Want to be a Writer
Authentic art requires you to do what inspires you and trust that a community of like-minded fans will find you
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One Bright Star
Something I wrote one week before Lucy left for college.
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Maybe It's Time to Let the Old Ways Die
2023: The Year of Quitting Things, Including Writing
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The Baby in Our Family is Seven
On losses, and wonderful days, and the passing of time
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Finding My Way Back
Two pieces of writing advice that are also helpful for when we feel stuck in life
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July 2023
A Place We've Gone Every Year for the Last Eighteen Years
We are here for less than fifteen minutes and already a handful of kids are running out the back door with fishing rods, and three teens are sprawled…
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The Malfunction
A Short Story
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Never Go To Bed Angry, Don't Watch Screens at Bedtime, and Other Various Pieces of Advice that Occasionally Fall Apart in the Face of Real…
They say you should never go to bed angry with your spouse, which in theory is all well and good and something we tried hard to practice in our early…
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