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  • Stopgap

    There won’t be a significant post this weekend, except for this one. There are a couple of reasons for this, and I’ll start with the one that would seem to be the most important: my computer is in the shop! Recently I purchased a new computer to replace the one I’ve had since 2011 or Continue reading

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  • The state of the novel

    Almost twenty years ago, I had an idea about a hero who could surround himself with an impermeable shell. I tried to write about it, but I couldn’t find the focus while I was in college, so it never got beyond a short prologue. That prologue may exist somewhere, but I haven’t seen it in Continue reading

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  • The Little Librarian

    This past summer I bought a Little Free Library, nominally as an anniversary present for Ariele. I say “nominally” because she, as a library employee and bona fide Bachelor of Library Science, had long expressed interest in having one; however, the essential function of one of these outdoor boxes is to allow a whole neighborhood Continue reading