This time we go west, wave at Fredericksburg as we pass, into the deep expanse of desert steppe and mesas.
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Twilight graveyard
Savers Thrift Store: Where Twilight goes to die.
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You as a Machine
From the Basic Science Education Series, 1955.
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I, Robot
How did I get to almost-thirty-two before reading I, Robot? So enjoyable. Fawcett Crest, 1970 printing.
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sweet freedom
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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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all we want is everything is never enough
(@ Ax-Man Surplus, St. Paul, MN)
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What’s better than a technicolor dreamcoat?
Dreamcrow. (@ the 2012 Minnesota State Fair art show!)
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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.
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New York for a day
Danced the darkness in and away.
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safety and love
I looked for proper dinosaurs to give my niece for her second birthday, but all I could find are battery-operated blinkenlight mech-warrior monstrosities, with guns.
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Northern Spark 2012
Bikes in tow, brother Rob and I zoomed all over the gorgeous Minneapolis night for street tacos, impromptu dance parties, flame-thrower bicycles, giant puppets, wee shadow poppets, critical mass traffic jams and games with light and sound.
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emo tortugas all the way down
When I spotted the turtle wind chime in Puerto Viejo, my heart split asunder.
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treevenge
A couple years ago, my dad bought some land up lake country so he can be the Minnesotan that he acts like.
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Costa Rica! Part 1: San José
This post covers the first leg, when I was working in the capital San José, with some exploring on my own but mostly touring with university folks.
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Costa Rica! Part 2: Limón
his post focuses on the off-on-my-own, terrifying-crazy-awesome-fun time when I stayed in hostels on the Caribbean Sea.
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all backed up
I returned from Costa Rica to a sick machine. Can’t fool me, I knew it was a goner, and it did too.
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baggage, tagged
Work is sending me to Costa Rica next week!
