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Days in motion

The next few days might prove challenging.

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Whup-Ass challenge

The challenge: Take the mythological hero/heroine or do-gooder of your choice and reveal (expose?) their dark side or troubled past My entry: Shekel I was not so much betting on the lots as on my nerve. Though Thomas looked at … Continue reading

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The creek done rise and the Lord’s willin’

Two poems in this Shit Creek Review. I feel all proprietary because Michael Cantor’s Ali poem uses a title I suggested on Whup Ass. FAME! FORTUNE! Well, fame at least. Well, at least a blog post. That’s going to count … Continue reading

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100 days of getting off my butt

My goal is simply to get more exercise, so I’m doing 100 days straight. Look, I even have a ticker. I’m not sure that I would want to watch a baseball game in which the batter kept getting closer and … Continue reading

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Recipe

I tried a new chili recipe last night because a certain person, not naming any names, Chris, doesn’t like beans and I tend to like chili with some sort of something other than meat and spices. So I found a … Continue reading

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Notes from slightly aboveground and slightly above freezing

Let it be known that winter sucks. I got my second LSAT score back. It’s better than the last one. Not as good as I was hoping for, but I’m greedy and a perfectionist. The more I get rid of … Continue reading

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Fifty

Steve was born on October 24, 1960 in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Tomorrow would have been his 50th birthday. Fifty still feels like such a long way from me. I’m 39. I’ll be 40 when I start law school. Will I, … Continue reading

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The big read

I have given away hundreds if not thousands of books in the past few years, but have set aside a few authors. Those authors, I had said, were my untouchable collection. It’s only when I start to count those books … Continue reading

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A serendipitous portmanteau

Chris yesterday inadvertently created a brilliant word: snowpokes. You know, people who drive slowly because there’s a light dusting of snow on the ground. Snowpokes. Use it in good health.

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Awaiting Esther–(mini-biblical sequence)

Awaiting Esther He wants another wife. He wants my head– the one I wouldn’t bare before his friends to cap their drunken revels at night’s end– to be exposed to pecking birds instead. Now that I’m free to spit into … Continue reading

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