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Is It Good to Grow Old?
“I want to go when I want.
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On Traveling
I finished this post on Sunday, but due to traveling I couldn’t post until, well, just now.
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On Child “Prodigies”
I hate tooting my own horn, so please don’t take my story, roughly described below, as boastful.
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Advice I Gave to a Friend (The Sort I Hope I Don’t Regret Someday)
“…Remember what’s important!—you, face to face interactions with your friends, and doing something meaningful in life.
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A Small Diatribe on Why Typewriters Are So Great
A couple of weeks ago I discovered the typewriter.
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On A Friend
I’d like to be unorthodox this week and write about a friend named Gary, who passed away suddenly and recently.
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A Helpful Letter from a Friend
“Dear Mr.
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Hawai’i and Scuba Diving. and Last Week’s Letter
Tomorrow, I’m flying to Hawai’i with a friend so that we can get our scuba diving certification before she runs off to the Peace Corps and never sees me…
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Oops
So, I spent the past two and a half hours writing out 3,500 words in my journal, and I totally forgot to write about my trip to Hawaii here!
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On the Dead in Dreams
When someone who’s passed shows up in one of your dreams, do you believe it’s just a product of your own wild and random imagination, or do you feel…
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Some Amazing Quotes From War and Peace
“When he returned home it was a long time before Pierre could fall asleep; he kept thinking of what had happened to him.
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A Small Piece
I wrote this moderately long post about the infinite, how we engage it as it seems to me, and a small tangent about whether or not that moment is…
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