First steps

May 5, 2008

The road was paved and marbled with cracks and patched potholes, like many farm roads. The edges crumbled and fell away in chunks of asphalt. The blacktop road, we called it, though it was really closer to gray. On its way south, the road caught the end of our long driveway, making a T of […]

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The Alleged Man Photo poll (rock the vote)

May 3, 2008

Opinion Polls & Market Research This poll will remain open until Saturday, May 10.

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The Man Photo

May 2, 2008

What was the last thing someone said to you that made you want to crawl under your desk/the bedcovers/the closest mountain? Well, here’s mine… Tonight I was talking on the phone with someone who is related to me by blood, close enough that a kidney donation might have a good shot.* This Close Blood Relative […]

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Trading places with myself

May 1, 2008

I am a terrible passenger. It isn’t often that I am willing to give up the driver’s seat (all that power, all that control) and let someone else do the driving for a while. Even if it means that I will have a chance to sleep or read a book while someone else negotiates the […]

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Wilderness

April 29, 2008

Women Women have no wilderness in them, They are provident instead, Content in the tight hot cell of their hearts To eat dusty bread. They do not see cattle cropping red winter grass, They do not hear Snow water going down under culverts Shallow and clear. They wait, when they should turn to journeys, They […]

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Lost and found (and things too big for words)

April 28, 2008

What can I say about the Grand Canyon that someone else hasn’t already said? Others before me have exhausted all the superlatives. But I can think ahead a hundred years, or a thousand (assuming that we don’t destroy the planet before either of those dates), and imagine everyone in the future feeling just as wordless. […]

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A hop, a skip, and I hope no one will jump (or fall)

April 24, 2008

We have a new toilet, and it’s installed! Thanks for all the good advice since yesterday. I ended up calling my friend Mrs. B’s handyman, and he was able to install the toilet I lugged home from Home Depot. Okay, so I didn’t lug it home. A nice man at Home Depot put it into […]

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18 in '08

April 23, 2008

For a while now, I have meant to pass along the link to this website: 18 in ’08. To quote from the site: 18 in ’08 started as a film to turn out young voters for the 2008 election. Now 18 in ’08 is leading an unprecedented peer to peer movement to register, engage, and […]

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Turn left at the dirt road

April 22, 2008

For a few hours yesterday, I lived the life of a degenerate gambler. And I liked it. While the kids were in school, my dad and his wife and I went to play poker at the casino where I like to play. I don’t do this often, but it always feels decadent to play poker […]

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Small victories

April 20, 2008

We were here today: Old Tucson Studios. The kids had a great time, and everyone was exhausted at the end of the day. It was a fun place, with a lot of movie history and enough activities to keep the kids excited and happy. And I didn’t even know about it until my dad’s wife […]

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