October 31st 2005
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I have a pale roundish orb sitting on my kitchen table. It’s been slashed into submission by the relentless jabs and gouges of a sharp knife. It has aspirations towards orangeness, but to be perfectly honest it’s more of a pale brown than orange.My wife has a fond spot in ...
October 27th 2005
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Yesterday was a day of smells. The first sensory impression I had in the day, besides the blast of cold air that greeted me as I stepped off the bus, was the warm, sugary smell of pastries. The scent followed me from the outside plaza into the foyer, and then ...
October 24th 2005
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Love is a constant interrogation.My eyes tripped over this line, they got up and attempted to run over it again; then stopped with the period and dashed back to the beginning to try one more time. Visions of bright lights and chain-smoking inspectors rattling off angry questions, pictures of suavely ...
October 19th 2005
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My shoes are off, lying disjointedly on the carpet. They've been through a bit today. One of my favorite lunch time activities, when it's sunny, is urban exploration. I devour my sandwich, head outside, and then determine a direction for my journey. Finally I walk, careful to ...
October 18th 2005
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I feel like some sort of frontier man, preparing for a momentous journey. I need to accustom my fingers and mind to the rigorously demanding task of producing orderly stacks of letters. With that in mind I have a goal of progressively increasing blog post volume over the ...
October 14th 2005
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November is National Novel Writing Month. I missed this epic event last year; not this year! I plan on wearing out my keyboard with mountains of knee-jerk prose. My novel won't be posted on this site--it has its own dedicated site, which will be linked to from ...
October 12th 2005
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Something came to me yesterday as I ambled down the dark hallway (3 levels below the surface of the earth). Have you ever entered your memories, gone back through the hard drive of your mind to examine what was successfully archived? This was what I was doing. Some people refer ...
October 10th 2005
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My wife Brittany and I received our monthly dose of culture at the Columbus Symphony on Saturday night and then ambled down to the water front to stare at the Fire on the Water thing. I'm not exactly sure what the event is called, but it's intriguing--you'd probably like it, ...
October 7th 2005
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Leptodactylous I am,No doubt it's true.Sitting here,Strumming softly:Listen and imbueNotes glimmering cheerEchoing gently.Intricately renewEscaping cold meer,Riding the wind, romantically.del.icio.us : Poetry
October 4th 2005
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I've been very productive as of late. The bus ride to and from work gives me time to imbue and digest large amounts of text. I start with the Bible, contemplating verses while gnawing on an apple and sipping cautiously from my thermos of hot dark coffee. After my QT ...