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Daytalking, Nightwalking, Stargazing: Discovering Your Lifelong Passions
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StoryShedding: #16 (opens the original)
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WELP I FINALLY DID it: Became one with the Covid-19 infected world. That is to say, I’ve been really under the weather.Not deathly ill—I was thrice or more vaccinated and should’ve recognized the symptoms: fever, loss of smell, appetite, lethargy, watery eyes, sneezing and sore throat, coughing and overall body aches. Just subpar human health.Buh I’m on the mend. And I’m glad you’re here. Let’s do some Shedding now that it’s September.Warm Bake > Hot TakeI’M NOT SURE I have a warm bake over hot
Dancing Shadows and Hidden Spaces (opens the original)
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SOMETIMES WRITERS CAN SENSE a story they told years before when it comes back to haunt them—almost as if the story went off to live its own life and returned with wild tales to tell its creator. That just happened to me, and I could sure use your help figuring it out.My memoir project Daytalking, Nightwalking, Stargazing, which essentially began in October 2010 (although I didn’t realize it then), really clicked when I moved over here to Substack from Medium. Part of my task this past summer has
Intermission at the Passion Pit (opens the original)
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IT’S TOTALLY TRUE I had a blessed childhood and maybe luckier teenage years than I realized living through them. But I couldn’t wait to be an adult. Adults had the keys to everything: cars, houses, money, power, sex—all the glittering bangles of consumer capitalism.In this last Completely in the Dark (CITD) revisit essay of Season 13, a scant three years before community college and my “sexual awakening” (for what it was worth—ahem), there were friends and from those friends appeared love in une
StoryShedding: #15 (opens the original)
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WE’RE INTO THE DOG days of Summer 2026 and this is the first monthly edition of StoryShedding after some rejiggering around the Season 13 schedules and getting back into writing new work. Hey, I’m glad you’re here.Warm Bake > Hot TakeBEEN DOING A LOT of thinking which, as opposed to acting, feels like warm bake territory. Of course the hot heads snap into action. I’m not gonna do that if at all possible. The current state of the world just now favors hot takes. You can see ’em comin’ from a thou
Au Revoir, Monsieur Libido (Conclusion) (opens the original)
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MOST MEMORIES FADE. SOME become vivid personal legends. This story, it seems, is one of my latter ones. And you know what? First sex is the worst sex. Relationships take perspective and time, private moments and big risks, serendipity and sweetly aligned temperaments to make the better experiences count. For me things got better as I dated but I’m not sure I ever read the fine print in the sexual relations clause of the unwritten contract that is “lifelong partnership.”I had more missteps than d
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