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The Definition of Sultry
Research has shown something that I've known for a very long time. I couldn't prove it. I just knew it was true (as Bill Maher might say). And the thing is, there are more divorces in August than in...
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Advice
I saw one of my old neighbors at the gym yesterday. I hadn't seen him for about a year, but he is retired and probably goes at a time I am working. Yesterday, he was on one of those chair bikes...
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Tony
I took my Hasselblad to the Sunday market yesterday. I had it in a bag and wasn't sure that I would take it out. Taking pictures so obviously in a crowd isn't easy to do on occasion. It is the sort...
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My Almost Sexist Take On Lone Wolf Males
Guys get fooled easily, I think. It is hopeful thinking. It happens when you are with your girl/woman/wife/partner--whatever. You've been with her for a while. You are comfortable. You like having...
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The Wisdom of Money
How do you choose your life? Do you save for the future or do you make yourself happy in the moment? Conventional wisdom, of course, says to save. It is rewarding to save in its own way, and the...
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You'll Put Your Eye Out
It is a cartoon, but it isn't a joke. See here (link). I talked to Q last night. He asked if I didn't think it was fucked up to want to pay $3,500 for a digital camera that is five years old and...
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Moral Dilemmas
There is something wrong about not wanting a hurricane to touch you, but it would be insane to wish otherwise. In hoping the hurricane would go north before landfall, I was wishing for misery upon...
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Despondent
I've taken the last few days of the long Labor Day weekend to gather together all my camera gear. I couldn't fine half of it--appropriate chargers, batteries, cards, lenses. After half a day of...
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The Cat Puke of Life
Woke up hopeful. No such luck. Cat puked on the couch in the night. It will stain. No luck at all. I have worse stories to tell, but I can't. I read an article about loneliness in the N.Y. Times...
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Illustrator and Artist
This is an illustration for an article on loneliness that I read in the N.Y. Times yesterday. It is like a cross between an Edward Hopper and a Rockwell Kent. The illustrator's name is Jon Krause. I...
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A Good Day to Die
I have so many plans in the mornings. Then there is the factory, the gym, marketing, cooking, and sometimes I don't feel well. And, at least sometimes, you must have company. So many plans. So...
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To Float
People get excited here when the humidity drops. They think it is evidence of autumn. They are silly. It is caused by a storm somewhere far from here that draws the humid air to it. It will be...
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Forever's Hero
Head over heart over hips. I can't sit like that any more. Not for long, anyway. I am a mess. It comes from trying to be somebody that God didn't intend for me to be--the Hero. Or something. It...
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Nature
I woke last night to a "thump" on the bedroom door. I stayed awake for a minute listening to see what was next but began to drift off to sleep again when it sounded as if something had fallen off the...
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Reading Against the Future
I am reading a book that disappoints me. I liked the author's first book very much, but one novel does not a writer make, etc. I think I just wanted him to write the same book over using a different...
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Small Comfort
I'm finding that the smallest and subtlest of things now bring me the greatest pleasure. I have lost the heroic impulse, I guess. I read in Towles book last night a line about a character who seemed...
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Ten Minutes to Spoil a Lyric
I have only ten minutes to write today's prose lyric. Duty calls me elsewhere. I lay in bed and thought about what to write this morning. Now, all of that is gone without a trace. It was some male...
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Holding On
The bill for the new awning came, but the roofer hasn't. Said the rain was keeping him away. Predicted rain. It really hasn't. But rain is in the forecast for the extended future. I have needs. I...
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Indecision and Chafing
I think that I might make some new photographs this weekend. Maybe. The weather forecast isn't good, but that should not stop me. The major obstacle to overcome is will. Or the decided lack...
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Twofer
My plan to make pictures this weekend is off to a slumbering start. After the gym yesterday, there was still plenty of daylight left, but I fooled around the house until it was too late to go. No...
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