I took a half day off work on Thursday so Ambrose and I could drive up to the Queens River…
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- Backpacking
- Biking
- Books
- Cambridge
- Cats
- Challenge
- Chicago
- Cleaning
- Crafts
- Daily Journal
- Day Job
- Electronics
- Essay
- Fandom
- Fantasy
- Fiction
- Fitness
- Flute
- Food
- Fool
- Goals
- Grief
- Gym
- Hair
- Headaches
- Health
- History
- Hockey
- Home
- House
- IBS
- Judging
- Languages
- Monsters
- Music
- Nominee Project
- Pain
- Philosophy
- Photos
- Poetry
- Political
- Publishing
- Race
- Ritual
- Romance
- School
- SciFi
- Snark Alert
- Social
- Song
- Sports
- the stroke
- Travel
- Upper Country Singers
- Video
- Website
- Whine
- Wilderness
- Work
- Writing
Summer Cleaning
As I prepared to embark on a fly-out backpacking trip, I decided to do a little “spring” cleaning. It’s late…
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Ambrose managed to injure his thumb with a pretty deep cut. We didn’t want to expose that cut to the…
Continue ReadingDigestive Health Update
My body has decided to debut some new flavors of pain in the last couple weeks. Usually, I’ll get some…
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Ambrose and I are trying to get out together almost every weekend in June. The one we aren’t going to…
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The last time I made omelets, I didn’t have a meat handy. Sure, I could have cooked up some sausage,…
Continue ReadingQueens River Backpack Day 3
Now that we knew when the sun would hit our little campsite, we didn’t even try to wake up before…
Continue ReadingAnother Story, What?
It’s interesting. The more I focus on writing this nonfiction book that’s been percolating in my head for several months…
Continue ReadingQueens River Backpack Day 2
While we weren’t in a hurry this morning, we did have a plan. After breakfast, we were going to climb…
Continue ReadingSubmitted Another Story
I wasn’t sure what I was going to write for the 3rd quarter entry of Writers of the Future that…
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