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Seize The Carp

I'm listening to a podcast, but all I can think of are Henry David Thoreau's words from Walden, "I w...

Follow The Plot

I've been playing chicken with the line between creating and critiquing for as long as I can remembe...

Scrolling In The Deep

Before deleting the Substack app, I worried about not finding new stuff to read, but then I realized...

Bunkers, Benches, And Boxes

My whole life has been shaped around tech advancements. That's the blessing and the curse of being a...

Funk It Up

Finding your rhythm requires some blues. Today was a good day, but I've been in a rut lately.

When You Least Expect It

Good things happen to those who participate. But I'd planned on being a spectator, not a participant...

When We Were Pen Pals

Turns out my doctor’s a real person. I spotted him at a local coffee shop today. As in, somewhere ot...

Keystroking Your Ego

I finished a book yesterday and I'm pretty mad about it. Not at the book (it was great) but at mysel...

When It Clicks

Today, for the first time in about six years, I turned on my DSLR camera. I found one of the last ph...


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