Field notes
Things that happened to me. Sometimes also photos.
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The Value of an Education
Of my mother’s many siblings, there’s one I’m close with. When I was at high school, he gave me a summer job at his business,…
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Ode to Carbonation
There is no culinary experience I value more than sparkling water hitting the back of my throat. For optimal effect, the level of carbonation is…
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A Lucky Guess
A colleague and I were looking over a graph with same data he had produced. I didn’t understand it, so I asked him about a…
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Artist and Work Becoming One
32 minutes into the documentary All That Is Sacred, Tom McGuane quotes Stéphane Mallarmé: At the point at which an artist dies, whatever his life…
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Wearing a Dead Man’s Shirts
When my friend died, I started wearing his shirts. He died the day after we celebrated Christmas eve, and last weekend his widow came over…
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Blitz Tourism
We were vacationing in the Austrian alps. Our cabin was at the end of a small, winding road, on the edge of a pasture with…
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