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After the Crash
Standing outside in the misty dark, Jess felt unusually still. A rusty pipe propped open the door of the tin shed, its butt end digging into the grav…
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Things We've Learned So Far About ePublishing
This summer T.J. Lind and I formed N&L Publishing for the purpose of publishing a handful of things that I have written over the years but for wh…
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Food Crisis Update
It sure is nice to wake up in the morning with a refrigerator full of food. That's a luxury not experienced by a large portion of our world. Let&…
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Mistake Proofing
Mistake proofing, or making things “idiot proof” as some engineers crudely call it, is a process in which a factor is designed in so as to prevent mi…
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For One Night Of Love (Part 2)
SHORT STORY MONDAY "For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: `It might have been!`" ~Whittier For One Night Of Love (…
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Something Remarkable
Moved by Jose Sanchez's powerful novel, "God Was Looking The Other Way." For many, this is how it is. Unjust, horrible situations. And …
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Where's Waldo?
My son was born in 1986. The Waldo books emerged in 1987. When we got Micah that first Where's Waldo? , searching for that skinny guy in the red …
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Take a Picture, or Engage?
I was working on my Honda out in front of the garage this morning when I heard a loud buzzing noise behind me. It sounded like a giant bumblebee, mak…
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Julie and Julia
Last night Susie and I went to a theater to see Julie and Julia , a delightfully original story involving cooking, writing, blogging and relationship…
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Twitter Stats: How Do You Measure Up?
It's self-evident that if you actually have a real life you can't possibly live in all these virtual networks simultaneously, though there a…
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Ten Minutes with Motivity Photographer Rolf Hagberg
I met Rolf Hagberg sometime in the 1990's when he was working with Jeff Frey and Associates here in Duluth. It seems like whenever I was at Jef…
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Unfinished Stories (Part 8)
SHORT STORY MONDAY Gary Spencer, the last man alive to have read all of Richard Allen Garston's works, changed his name to Father William and now…
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Witch Hunts
In our philosophy club last month we listened to a lecture on witch hunts titled, “Let Us Burn the Witches to Save Them.” It is not a pretty piece of…
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It's a Small, Small World
In 1889, Thomas Curtis Clarke opened his essay on "The Building of a Railway" with these words: "The world of today differs from that …
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A Whiter Shade of Pale
Ok , admit it. You loved the song, have always loved the song, but have never been entirely sure what it was all about. That’s how it has been for me…
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