I May Be Some Time
Tuesday, March 19, 2024
Unfortunate Travellers: Notes on Memory
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When Garcia Marquez died in 2014 he left an unfinished novel, comprised of five drafts and nearing 800 pages. He also left explicit instruc...
Thursday, February 15, 2024
Godspeed my friend, David Johnston, with some mid-1970s mountaineering notes
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My friend David Johnston passed away a couple weeks ago, alone in a small apartment on the 26 th floor of a Chicago high rise...
Thursday, January 4, 2024
An Origin Story: the Detroit Institute of Arts
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I was born in Detroit. Although I left there almost fifty years ago and the house I was raised in has been out of the family for decad...
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Thursday, November 9, 2023
Notes on Accepting the Banff Mountain Book Award
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Thanks Amy Jane (Rab Athlete who presented the award) and thanks to Rab for their continuing support of mountain culture and for sponsorin...
Sunday, September 17, 2023
Follow Your Nose: Some Notes on Audience
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I read from my work in a bookstore last week. First “in-person” event since pre-pandemic times. Eleven people in the audience. Five r...
Friday, August 25, 2023
My Old Man, a work in progress
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If there’s one thing you should know about my father, it’s that he left college when his father died, his mother was in the tuberculosis ...
Monday, June 19, 2023
Some Notes on Descent
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The descent beckons, as the ascent beckoned ~ William Carlos Williams There are only three people I trust to set up rappel anchors , pau...
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