Category: writing
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Recovery
“I got a date.” I say as I take my hand off my pawn, slapping the clock. The park birds are running a zigzag to avoid the joggers chasing them past our table. Chet is focused only on the game, his fast breaths obscure the board in the cool air. He doesn’t notice the birds…
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Camping in Elizabeth Furnace, Forest Cults, and Jolene
Car camping is the simple practice of packing way too much gear, way too much food and beer, and not enough ice to then sit in the great outdoors with friends and family. The farthest likely distance from your car to your bed is one hundred feet. I say car camping to distinguish the activity…
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Key West and the Coco Plum Inn
A recounting of a trip to Key West asserting that chickens are superior to Canadian geese and medical science has gone too far.
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Cajun Andouille
A Recipe in Prose I want to talk about andouille. For those of you reading this sans serif, those are “L”s. Don’t worry, we’re not going to pronounce them. It’s ann-DOO-ee. We also won’t be calling it andouille sausage. This feels akin to putting in one’s PIN number into the ATM machine. More specifically, I…
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Great Wolf Lodge in the Wisconsin Dells
A Review in Prose There are few family vacations that will enthrall both parents and children. For folks who grew up in the southern US there has always been the summer thrill of the waterpark: burning in the too hot sun waiting in line for the brief refreshment of pretending to be a luge racer…
