Category: Random
Me talkin to myself
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Oregon author Ken Kesey knew well what practicing novelists learn: Writing a novel, regardless of its quality, is hard. Truth. I’ve written four. The first one found a small regional publisher and came out to positive reviews and modest success. The second one, with the help of a New York agent, circulated the halls of…
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Why isn’t it enough to enjoy the beauty in other people’s gardens? You walk by and drink it in. All the pleasure. None of the work. Other people’s gardens full of black-eyed susans got me started with this color-saturated perennial and its dense drifts of bright blossoms. Desire drove me like a toddler who wants…
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The first time vertigo hit, I didn’t believe it. Shook my head, got a hand on a wall, looked around. Holy hell, vertigo is a real thing. How can I, the most vertically stable person I know, have this? Then I learned about the little crystals that can form and wander around the inner ear.…
