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Winter 2024: New Stages

I write from a friend’s sitting room where JT and I are dog-sitting. It’s comfortably strewn with Christmas decorations and toddler toys, and currently missing the massive pup who is romping around in the yard. JT and I got married eleven days ago. We were blessed by incredible love and care from family and friends […]

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Fall 2022: Back on the Road (Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Colorado)

I’m sitting in a sun-lit lounge car on a northbound Amtrak train. We passed through Vancouver, Washington, maybe thirty minutes ago. We’ve enjoyed a stunningly summery purveyance of the lands between Eugene, Oregon and (unless something crazy happens) Seattle, Washington where we’ll arrive in hopefully 2.5 hours. This morning I woke early and sat in […]

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Fall 2022: Stateside

(Written 8/11/2022) Hi all. I write from a United Airlines seat midway through a trans-Atlantic flight. I left Dublin this morning bound for O’Hare Airport, following a by-now-familiar route back to Chicago. It’s been a long couple weeks. I don’t have internet connection at the moment so can’t look back to see when I would […]

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