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  1. Issue · Aug 25, 2026

    Do the Scary Thing: Turtle Noodling Edition (opens the original)

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    Not to get too heavy right off the bat here, but I’ve been thinking about death a lot lately. And not by choice.In January, I learned that Lisa Therrell, an old friend and boss during a brief stint with the U.S. National Forest Service, had passed away. Lisa had just started sharing her writing with me the previous fall, and though it’d been more than a decade since I’d seen her in person, I felt closer to her than ever reading all the wonderful stories about her ea

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