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Cutting Loose
Cutting Loose1
I suppose it looks like desperation when an author starts inserting crochet patterns and old song lyrics halfway through a book. But no. It’s really an intermission for those inexorably sucked in, perhaps on a cold rainy day...
Towing a Chevy This Morning
Towing a Chevy This Morning1
[Key of G]
Tying a knot and remembering Dad,
Not that he’s gone but he seems out of reach,
He was the teacher who showed me the bowline,
A knot that is never too tight to untie.
He never calls or writ...
Slip Not Lest ...
Slip Not Lest ...
Apportioning blame is a delicate art. After all, we are, each and every one of us, in some way, even a very small way, responsible.
If—to cite the most famous and overworked example—a butterfly wing in China is at t...
Stretch Pants
Stretch Pants
Juliet kept up with Greg a bit longer than I would have expected, all things considered. Occasional phone calls and even a few letters. (Personal letters were a communication method that involved paper and pens and envel...
Tummy Tuck
Tummy Tuck
Been getting a lot of letters with questions about Lurlene, so we’ll have to put off the other again. Seals, I suppose, can wait.
All you’ve had to go on so far is that she’s a little “pushy?” I guess that’s right. Just mo...
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I've published 20 books as of September 2026,, ranging from essay collections, to biography, to gardening, to a novel, transcripts of lectures delivered over the years, and ten collections of short fiction.
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