This post exists for no other reason to give props to Erich at Cached Memories for a beautiful piece of writing about memory, place, and… smells.
When I left Duluth briefly after college I arrived home (at my parents’) in the fall. Farmers were harvesting their crops and the air was sweet and dry with dusty [...]
I’ve been making a bit of an effort to explore the blogosphere (my least favorite word in all of history) lately and in doing so stumbled across Leaning Birch, an interesting blog from Vermont about exploring the sense of place. Something I’ve tried to focus on in this blog, in my life and in all [...]
Snyder leaned back on the couch, closed his eyes, and recited a famous haiku by Kobayashi Issa, who wrote in Japan about 200 years ago. “Tsuyu no ya wa/ tsuyu no yo nagara/ sarinagara.” Then he translated: “This dewdrop world/ is but a dewdrop world/ and yet. … ”
“If you gloss the poem, it means, [...]
First in a multi-part series about last weekend. Stay tuned.
On Friday night, I went over to Gabe’s house to keep him company. Ryan and Wade joined, and it was kind of sort of just like old times. We played Golf, the card game, with some crazy new rules that Wade and Gabe play by, but [...]
Apparently our downstairs neighbor has a wireless connection. If I can’t get my digital camera to transfer files to my computer, at least I can now surf the web sitting on my couch…
When I first started working here about 18 months ago, I remember the first time I used the bathroom. It was during my first day orientation. I remember washing my hands that first time and getting paper towels to dry my hands with and pulling three paper towels out and that being the appropriate amount. [...]
A chapbook I've published containing my writing alongside the work of some other talented folks.
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