Category: musings
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Has Ideas, Makes Things, Shows People
I’ve been trying to figure out how to live my life. But the more I struggle, the more I try to force things, the more stuck I become. I would like to go with the flow more. I would like to follow my natural inclinations, my creative impulses, and not worry so much about whether…
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A Fragment of Memory
Fifteen years ago I was walking across a mostly empty parking lot towards the back entrance of the supermarket when I saw a shirtless man running towards me with a chainsaw. I hadn’t noticed him until he was about twenty feet away, because I had been listening to music with headphones on and staring at…
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Quick Thoughts after Writing Fiction
My father-in-law told me a story years ago about how he was drafted, and all the boys in the surrounding towns had to report to a recruiting office in Luling, Texas. When they were asked if there was any reason that they could not serve, a rising wave of young men blurted out that they…
The Whale Belly 