Wednesday was Arthur’s birthday.
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Arkansas Adventure
For Memorial Day Weekend we went to Hot Springs, Arkansas, famed for its ancient, bubbling waters the one-time cure-all of baseball players, gangsters and the frail elite, the ailing down-and-out, too. While some original offerings are intact—spas in the historic buildings along Bathhouse Row—tourist trap attractions have taken hold in haunted street tours, the duck-bus-boat-things…
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new map
Where do I begin?
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Chapter Next: Austin, TX
Librarians, we’re the worst, we never rest, men in black will march to the reference desk, muzzle cries of access, freedom to read, information privacy, making inner worlds safe for democracy, enriched and courageous, one worth embracing.
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trophies
Time does things. Knots your bootstraps and puts you to sleep.
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lionsitting
We stirred magic capsules in a cauldron of water till they turned into foam bugs.
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observantory
This time we go west, wave at Fredericksburg as we pass, into the deep expanse of desert steppe and mesas.
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book club with grandpa
I was in a book club this summer with my grandpa. He picked Moby Dick.
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2012 llama pageant: the kids are all right
The Llama Costume Contest at the 2012 Minnesota State Fair returned with glorious, unbridled imagination and drama at every cloven step. Which clever sibling, competing side by side, will have the superior theme and costume execution? Will Annaliese and her Viking Ship Llama again reign supreme to recapture the Llama Crown? DEAR GOD is that…
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House on the Rock
A shaky truth inside rebuke: Desire this wild, this intense and detailed excises the requirement to answer for it.
Narratives
Longer posts of creative nonfiction.
