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Monthly Archives: August 2010

Northern Highlights

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

WITH SUMMER TRIPS BACK TO BACK TO BACK, I’m a month behind recording them here. Recent weekends in Clermont, Okiboji, Des Moines and Afton had their moments, but I save my blogging bandwidth for the epic. Like our last trip of July: an international voyage along  Lake Superior with stops in Duluth, Grand Marais and [...]

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Dangerous at any speed

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

I’M IN AN EBULLIENT MOOD with my last deadline killed and billed before four days at the Oregon Coast. Yet I’m driving around recalling old psychic traumas, triggered by music and too-perfect-to-last weather. Summer of 1994. Des Moines. Let me take you there. A sticky Iowa August was ending and I needed to get back [...]

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Seeing what’s really there

Monday, August 9, 2010

In the New Yorker’s profile of Gil Scott-Heron this week, “New York Is Killing Me,” the artist is dead-on about everything, even as he’s smoking crack in his darkened apartment. “The way you get to know yourself is by the expressions on other people’s faces, because that’s the only thing you can see. I am [...]

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