Land Ho!

Tuesday afternoon must’ve been pretty inspiring. Walking back from the subject of my last post, my mind was already fomenting the issues at play in this one. It’s probably a good thing that I don’t have more time to write…

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The Noon Gun

I grew up with stories of “When Daddy was a little boy…”, tales of my father’s childhood lived across adventures from Nevada to DC to Afghanistan to Korea. The preferred setting for these narratives had to be the streets of…

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Clicking on No Cylinders

Somehow, this weekend felt like someone sucked all the oxygen out of the universe. I had big plans for the weekend, or at least moderate steps toward the things I’ve been intending to work on for a while. Many of…

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2/20/?

Yesterday, I had a really hard time. For one thing, I just wasn’t feeling that well, which is always sort of a struggle on one’s birthday. Birthdays aren’t quite the same as they were when I was excited to tack…

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Today’s Photos: Delhi & Kathmandu

Day three of my eighteen-day photo tour of India & Nepal (which before today hasn’t actually featured any India or Nepal) is up on the page. More to come soon, hopefully still keeping up on the daily pace even during…

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Back from India, etc.

Well I’m back from India, as should be relatively obvious from the recent spate of Duck & Cover updates (I missed Thursday because the internet was down), as well as the overhaul of the page theme here. It was an…

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Quicker Update from India

I’m back in an internet cafe, one with a painfully slow 33.6 Kbps that makes me yearn for the national parks of Nepal. We’re holed up in Orchha, India, a village of a scant 9,000 people with an incredible number…

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Quick Update from Nepal

Hello from Chitwan National Park in Nepal! I won’t attempt to try to describe the events of the past few days, but they have been among the most memorable in a very long time. I am currently sitting in an…

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Life as an Emotional Ocean

I don’t think I could possibly encapsulate what the last week has looked like in my life, but you can tell it looked like something with the absence of all the posts. It’s like someone going quiet in a room…

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