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Writing with Latitude: February 2015
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A collection of essays, outdoor adventure stories, ruminations, wordplay, parental angst, and blatant omphaloskepsis, generated in all seasons and for many reasons at 64.8 degrees north latitude. Saturday, February 28, 2015. Lately, I’ve been seeing a lot of cute little online lists purporting to offer “life hacks”: quick and easy low-cost tweaks that will save you time and energy. Sure, why not? I’ll click on that. Somehow, though, the hacks on offer never seem to be precisely the hacks I am looking for.
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Writing with Latitude: September 2014
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A collection of essays, outdoor adventure stories, ruminations, wordplay, parental angst, and blatant omphaloskepsis, generated in all seasons and for many reasons at 64.8 degrees north latitude. Wednesday, September 17, 2014. It's your word against mine. Me: We should do Scrabble lunches every once in a while, now that we're in the same neck of the woods, and all. I’m talking, of course, about my Scrabble habit. That was more than thirty years ago. These days, no one can stop me from reading the dic...
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Writing with Latitude: August 2014
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A collection of essays, outdoor adventure stories, ruminations, wordplay, parental angst, and blatant omphaloskepsis, generated in all seasons and for many reasons at 64.8 degrees north latitude. Friday, August 15, 2014. Is it ok if I get my pants muddy? 8221; Molly let out a happy-kid noise, and just in case her twin didn’t hear the good news, passed it on: “We can get dirty! 8221; And both children immediately plunged waist-deep into the dense brown muck. Bad); odor (Americans have declared a war on ar...
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Writing with Latitude: June 2015
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A collection of essays, outdoor adventure stories, ruminations, wordplay, parental angst, and blatant omphaloskepsis, generated in all seasons and for many reasons at 64.8 degrees north latitude. Sunday, June 14, 2015. I say goodbye to the two of them at the roundabout. They pedal away from me, pigtails poking from beneath helmets, little twenty-inch tires churning. They don’t look back. Will they have to walk their bikes, when it’s time for them to find me? How about the location of my new office? The t...
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Critters | Luke H. Smith
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And he said, 'Stomp upon the terra.' –Lord Buckley (via Hunter Thompson). Freelance Samples: Sun Valley Magazine. Lofoten Islands, Norway. Off Plum Island, Massachusetts. Parker River National Wildlife Refuge, Plum Island, Mass. Sled-dog puppies at play, Ittoqqortoormiit, Greenland. Vigur Island, Iceland. Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *. Meditation Tip of the Day. Liz Clark and Swell. The Horse's Mouth. 2013 Luke H. Smith. All right reserved.
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Blog | Luke H. Smith
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And he said, 'Stomp upon the terra.' –Lord Buckley (via Hunter Thompson). Freelance Samples: Sun Valley Magazine. Eulogy for My Father. On Jul 21, 2016 in Navel Gazing. Dad with Sean the golden retriever…sometime in the mid-’80s, I’m guessing. As you know, my father was a journalist. In that role, he was a storyteller: he relayed information about lives and events that readers could use to make informed decisions about how to live their lives. Teasing a newly-arrived-at-the-front soldier by saying they u...
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mountainrunner | The Mountain Runner Notebook
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The Mountain Runner Notebook. A family's highs and lows in the Alaska wilderness. Amy, Adam and their family live in the wilderness north of Fairbanks, Alaska. Poetic nostalgia and daffodils. 8220;I wandered lonely as a cloud…”. A couple of years ago, my parents gave me a book of English Romantic poets that had belonged to Bob. There was a bookmark left in the book. On the marked page was this poem, I’m assuming one of his favorites. I wandered lonely as a cloud. That floats on high o’er vales and hills,.
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The beauty of Dorian Gray | The Mountain Runner Notebook
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The Mountain Runner Notebook. A family's highs and lows in the Alaska wilderness. Why you need to read The Bluest Eye. Tuning in →. The beauty of Dorian Gray. This is the Dorian Gray from the 2009 film of the same name. Could it be that what that soul thought, they realized? 8212; that what it dreamed, they made true? Or was there some other, more terrible reason? He shuddered and felt afraid, and going back to the couch, lay there, gazing at the picture in sickened horror.”. Tuning in →. Fill in your de...
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Writing with Latitude: June 2014
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A collection of essays, outdoor adventure stories, ruminations, wordplay, parental angst, and blatant omphaloskepsis, generated in all seasons and for many reasons at 64.8 degrees north latitude. Wednesday, June 4, 2014. The One Secret Trick. Based on the ads that clutter the edges of my computer screen, I should be worried about a lot of things. These include my wardrobe (“The latest in plus-size fashion! 8221;), my finances (“Interest Rates Plummet! 8221;), and my shoes (“Dozens of cute styles! I’...
