Notes & Essays
Être fort pour être utile
Essays and stories on self-reliance, DIY, repair, tools, birding, walking, living well, and other bric-à-brac. Please, enjoy.
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March 2023
Turn Your Own Wrenches
Repair as a way of life.
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December 2022
Everything is a Practice
There is no finish line. There is no winning, no losing.
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December 2022
Safety Third
Life first
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October 2022
The Cavalry Isn’t Coming
It's just you and me and the rain.
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August 2022
Rules for Screens, Part Two
Let's talk about your phone.
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August 2022
Rules for Screens, Part One
You can have a television or you can have a life.
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January 2021
Is This Water?
Walking, Cleaning, Walking some more.
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November 2020
The Best Shoes I’ve Ever Worn Are Hardly Shoes at All
Let me tell you about my shoes
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August 2019
Waffle the World
A waffle iron can do a whole lot more than breakfast
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March 2019
Why Live in a Vintage 1969 RV?
The less you have, the further you can go.
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February 2019
Life in Chains: Del Taco
Written for an Eater.com series on fast food chains.
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May 2015
What’s Missing Is
A story (fictional) based on my grandparents and other bits of family history.
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September 2010
Comeback Sauce
An Ode to JB's Sausage Cart, an Athens, GA Institution
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March 2005
One Nation Under a Groove
Consider the iPod, destroyer, or perhaps protector, of worlds