July 2011
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“I always thought that I had to be in a certain frame of mind to write, that the...”
– On Writing, with Jeffery Donaldson | Open Book: Ontario
The temperatures for tomorrow are set to reach as high as they ever can this far north, and we’ve been warned to keep the lights low and not to hog all the air-conditioning. It will be the kind of summer day that I used to spend reading Laura Ingalls Wilder’s The Long Winter. The heat and humidity in my upstairs bedroom would be suffocating, had I been paying attention, but I would be...
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I scored an amazing goal at ultimate frisbee tonight — the single notable contribution I made the entire game. The disc turned over to us on the line some two-thirds up the field. As the handler picked it up, I noted a pocket of empty field space in the endzone and knew the handler wanted to put it there. For most the game, any foray close to goal was guarded by two tall, fast dudes on the...
Some combination of a sugar crash, heat- and/or sun-stroke, and probable dehydration took me down last night. I am writing down the sequence of events that led to this so that I don’t do it again. I was alone in my office that afternoon, working on the kind of project where I keep meaning to leave my desk for a breather but never actually do because there’s always a bit more to do. A...
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