Pro tip: while attempting to create life, spend any leftover emotional space and money on plants, as they are Life, but not People. Marvel at their designs. Obsess over their watering instructions. IF ANYTHING HAPPENS …
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CHEESE OF CHEESES
I’ve had many fine cheeses in my day. String. Grocery store. France. Off off broadway opening night party that came from someone’s backpack. But this weekend, thanks to our local cheese store, I met THE …
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Excavation
Sometimes when I’m buckled into the belly of a metal beast shaking violently at thirty six thousand feet above Kansas, I like to dig through my computer and find old things I wrote and try …
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Quiet Area
To the woman sitting at the table next to me SHOUTING AT AN AIRLINE ON HER PHONE, please note the carefully placed decorative wood blocks that remind us (you) that one comes to Ojai for …
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America is a Gun
England is a cup of tea. France, a wheel of ripened brie. Greece, a short, squat olive tree. America is a gun. Brazil is football on the sand. Argentina, Maradona’s hand. Germany, an oompah band. …
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Even the Cows
Beaver County, Oklahoma. The owner of a beautiful cattle ranch drives me around, showing me the ropes, literally ropes and prairie dogs and fences and SO MANY BEAUTIFUL COWS. We come upon the first part …
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BLOGSTREET’S BACK; ALRIGHT
DEAR THE FIVE PEOPLE WHO NOTICED MY BLOG WAS DOWN FOR SIX WHOLE DAYS: ‘DATABASE ISSUES (?) HAVE BEEN RESOLVED, and my low grade panic that ensues when I have nowhere to put my thoughts …
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HAPPY 4TH FROM OLYMPIA, WASHINGTON
LAND OF TRUTH; OPTIMISM; BATHROOM WALL SCRAWLS LIKE ‘ABORT THE PATRIARCHY;’ RECYCLED PAPER COMMUNITY JOURNALS BEARING MESSAGES OF HOPE ALSO VEGAN SAUSAGE; TREES. No but really it’s hard to feel fully patriotic these days but …
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Two Kinds of Babies
Sometimes babies are human, like JAMES EDWARD BRUNSTETTER, born to my tiny baby brother Tim and his wife Sarah last week. This kind of baby does not cripple you with creative anxiety, but it WILL, …
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What this room is for
Morrison, every time he sits in our living room, taking it all in like a Lord: man, you could fit my whole family in here! We could all watch a movie in here! Last night: …