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Daniel Mason’s North Woods ✔️

January 5, 2024

First novel of 2024. (Okay, I started it in 2023.) Sweeping. Intertextual. Multiple POVs with distinct voices, cleverly interwoven. Feels like it’s in conversation with Matt Bell’s Appleseed. Favorite quote: “. . . she has found…

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Sliding into the New Year the New Old Way

January 2, 2024

I love a good paradox and liminal spaces and thresholds. So I’m intrigued by a new old way to think about the transition between calendar years called the Rauhnächte, a way to actually find a minute…

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You Need to Get Your Process Straight

November 13, 2023

The mattress guy told me, You need to get your process straight. And who doesn’t love shopping for a mattress and simultaneously being criticized? At least when bathing-suit shopping (an equally onerous task), the customer isn’t…

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It’s 2023, So Why Blog?

October 15, 2023

foot×note                                                             (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/footnote) 1Before you start a blog, you ought to ask yourself why. Does the world really need another blog? Wouldn’t a podcast be better? And if you do decide there’s no way around…