December 21, 2007
Thank you to everyone who has already ordered Esker. If you haven’t done so, you can still get your very own copy for $12. Not only have many people already ordered, several have been kind enough to spread the word via their blogs and I want to publicly thank everyone for doing that:
Julie at Not […]
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December 12, 2007
I am very, very, very, very, very happy to announce the publication of Esker: Tales of Woods and Water, a chapbook featuring my writings, as well as the works of several people I respect and enjoy.
Almost all of the writing from me has appeared on The Dharma Blog over the past three years, though it […]
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December 10, 2006
It is a good thing to be surprised. Be it someone appearing when you least expect it (i.e. when Rosie and I traded surprise visits to each other during our long-distance college days… I’ll never forget walking into the coffee shop in Madison as she swept up after closing, without looking up she said, “Sir, […]
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September 9, 2006
I don’t normally blog about blogging, but please excuse me while I briefly do so. I have made a pledge to myself to post something every day between now and our canoe trip in two weeks and to continue a very heavy amount of posting through the end of October. I think it is worth […]
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August 12, 2005
The last essay that I posted (There.) was the hardest thing I’ve posted. Maybe the hardest thing I’ve written. There is a difference. Like I said, I wrote it for myself. It was something I had to do at a specific time, when I was still drowning in the experience and I didn’t want to […]
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July 12, 2005
It is Cormac McCarthy’s command of the English language that primarily draws me to his work. McCarthy has a bigger vocabulary than any other author I can think of, and he uses it to perfectly express a dark lyric vision of America and the West. If nothing else, he has written possibly my favorite sentence […]
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