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After six months of waiting for insurance reasons, I saw a doctor today. Technically speaking, I saw a "nurse practitioner," frontline support...

The car shuddered just a bit about halfway through first gear, hesitated a single beat of combustion, which I noticed nervously but shrugged...

I saw it seperate from the car, and slowly roll off the side of the road, down an embankment. The impossibility of this event is what makes it...

Perhaps another part of this trouble I've had producing writing over the last many weeks has something to do with the organization of this darn...

Substance over style. I suddenly think of this as an algebraic expression, and envision myself drawing the consequences of the equation, challenging...

Once or twice a month is less frequent than I had hoped to use this forum. I think some of my silence here may be more about something else than...

I've never owned a truck, never owned a vehicle I could use to pull and haul things, never owned something I didn't have to drive gingerly over...

"You do not play things as they are... they're changed upon the blue guitar." --Wallace Stevens

All right, all right. I haven't written you. I haven't written you for a month or probably longer. General neglect of lots of important things...

"In the end no one will sell you what you need, You can't buy it off the shelf, You got to grow it from the seed" -- Chris Smither, No Love...

"Did you apply for that secret agent job?" said my sister. "Which one?" I said. "That one I sent you from the Internet..." I paused...

Two and a half hours of baking, broken down into the timing for each task, would go something like this: Looking for the yeast: 5 minutes....

Stars, and against them, a circle of pine trees, tall, dark figures against the night, standing as if in council around the ampitheatre. I lay...

"Once you head down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny... and you get dental."

"Maybe you'll feel better if you jump in and mosh until you puke."

Michael wrote. The stick began to move. He applied it to the dirt and was pleased with the old, familiar feeling of tapping Death's Radio, the...

I recently had a poem published in The White Shoe Irregular, a publication I help out with from time to time. The poem was written almost accidentally...

I had nothing for breakfast except orange food. That's what Alisa offered me. Canteloupe, Carrots, and Orange Juice. This was right before we...

I had a dream once, and was allowed to take pictures, because my camera had fallen into the water. Film that would normally have developed...

Language neurons... stiffening... creative juices... drying... must... find... antidote...

I am home. A week ago I rented a car, put most of my things in it, and then my center of consciousnes, and then some gasoline, and after that,...

"so I settled for a burger and a grape snow cone..." It was going to be an unusual evening anyway, it just turned out different. My plan...

There were parts of herself that were not in the mirror and those were pretty: a kindly touch inside the gloves of her big red hands, a well...

The train I wanted to catch from San Luis Obispo back to Ventura left each morning at 6:35 am. I was low on cash, and somehow, paying $20...

Up until two weeks ago or so, I have been driving an old, early 1980s Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser station wagon. This is one of those 3-rows-of-seats...

Today, after I've had some sleep, and assuming I am able to navigate public transportation, I will travel to San Luis Obispo county, and spend...

[Note: I dislike spam as much as the next person, and since everybody gets so much of it in their mailboxes, it must seem somewhat pointless...

"Linkin Park is a band, not a cosmology." -- Time Magazine, Jan 28 2002

Alisa, Thanks for the poem. Did I send you the thing I wrote about crickets? I can't remember. I think I did. Anyway, the poem you sent struck...

"I spent a long day sleeping on a big clean hard white bed with dirty remarks carved in the wall beside my pillow and the beat yellow windowshades...

Day 1: There seems to be a cricket in the room chirping softly and occasionally. Crickets are rustic and novel. Glad for the company and the...

I had a dream once, and was allowed to take pictures, because my camera had fallen into the water. Film that would normally have developed...

The FTC is taking public comments on a national "Do Not Call" list. A telemarketer who contacted someone on the list would be breaking the law...

As I was hiking in Arches National Park last weekend, I was thinking Paul Ford's hilarious Google piece, and suddenly realized that this was...

Each day the earth deeply, softly rolls each night that moonlit wings move over seasons, each round and solar circle, slow, long, and smooth...

This morning I walked into the bathroom in the hallway in my parents house. I reached for the wall-mounted roll of toilet paper and the fixture...

Truth or Dare Jenga has black blocks (for truth) and red blocks (for dares). There are also wood-colored blocks (for Jenga). One might argue...

These were taken at Provo's 2002 International Ice Carving Competition, an event produced in conjunction with the 2002 SLC Winter Olympics

Valentine's day is over. I can move What is a Flower? off of the favored, featured spot on this site. I did not send it with flowers to anyone,...

What is a flower? It is a kiss from the earth to the sky a child of sugar and sunlight low brown loam and God's bright dye love returned...

What is the difference between a half-formed thought and a full-term thought? Some of the things I've posted here in a few short weeks seem OK;...

Question: what is meant by the phrase "free market"? It's a question I ask myself increasingly as I think about economics. I'm sure there...

I saw Lord of The Rings yesterday. It was a wonderful film that I could nitpick with for hours over non-sequitori, changes from the book that...

I walked home from the local testing center after I took the GMAT today. It's a good activity, walking; it has a long heritage of doing good...

Mom sings with the Mormon Tablernacle Choir. She's an excellent soprano, well-versed in choral literature. She is not very familiar with the...