Thursday, June 10th, 2010
No, it's not my first time doing laundry. It is, however, my first time washing children's clothes. A whole lotta M's friends, and a few of mine, got together to throw us a surprise baby shower on Sunday. Okay, it wasn't a surprise to me, but it was for M. ...
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Saturday, May 8th, 2010
A continuing series of thoughts written while waiting for the clothes to dry at B. Bubbles laundromat.
His clothes are in a wire basket on wheels, still wet from the washing machine, and they are all white. Whiter than white. Whiter than any I've ever seen. Whiter than when they were ...
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Thursday, November 19th, 2009
A continuing series of thoughts written while waiting for the clothes to dry at B. Bubbles laundromat.
Last night I attended a post-race party hosted by Robin Hood. I recognized a few faces: Scott, the team 'coach' whom last year I referred to as The Kid. He's 31 years old but ...
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Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
This was by far one of the hardest marathons I've ever run. I'd put it at number two or three. The hardest by far was the first when I didn't really know what to expect out of that last five miles. Close running for second is this one and Austin ...
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Friday, August 28th, 2009
The laundromat is unusually quiet this morning. Usually the fans whir, four hanging from the walls and two industrial ones over the doors. They cause such a din it's hard to hear the voices in your head. Add to that the television that hangs over the back of the room ...
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Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
I've been thinking a bit recently about unlikable characters, specifically protagonists who we find unpleasant to follow in a novel or story. This came about after my wife read my nearly completed novel -- which has the working title novel(2). One of her comments was that she found the main ...
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Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
Would you read this book?
Tucker has problems. While on vacation he has an accident in his father's car and is forced to spend a week with his parents. His wife announces she's leaving him. He loses his job. His parents arrive for a surprise visit, mysterious about their ...
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Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
A continuing series of thoughts written while waiting for the clothes to dry at B. Bubbles laundromat.
Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
My review
rating: 5 of 5 stars
I've been looking for this book for months, have reserved it through the library and waited and waited for it ...
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Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
A continuing series of thoughts written while waiting for the clothes to dry at B. Bubbles laundromat.
I have little more than four weeks before the San Francisco Marathon. Last Friday, hungover and tired from too little sleep, I ran 17 miles to work. It was a long, hard slog, one ...
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Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
A continuing series of thoughts written while waiting for the clothes to dry at B. Bubbles laundromat.
I've spent the last several weeks finishing my November NaNo, which I've given the working title "Under Burning Wood." Usually I just call it the typewriter story, It's a hundred-thousands words about a man ...
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