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Three Words That Became Hard To Say: April 2015

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Three Words That Became Hard To Say. Sunday, April 26, 2015. One of the more awkward minutes of my life followed in which she giggled and ummed and asked if she could get back to me, before settling on telling me she was “off the table.”. I let it go at that and walked back to my apartment while she drove away, and I was left to spend an inordinate of time wondering, for the weeks that followed, what off the table. And keep your head up, keep your love. Months earlier, I’d written a short story in ...

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Three Words That Became Hard To Say: October 2014

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Three Words That Became Hard To Say. Friday, October 31, 2014. As faithful readers have likely identified by now, I like holidays. I enjoy the ritual assembly of family that happens on Thanksgiving and Christmas, the resolution that comes with New Year’s, the signature fireworks of the Fourth of July. And then there’s Halloween. By Halloween, as the cliche goes, the bloom was off the rose. As the day approached, a couple of the girls talked about having a movie night on the 31st, and persisted in add...

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Three Words That Became Hard To Say: August 2015

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Three Words That Became Hard To Say. Sunday, August 30, 2015. Brother, Sister, Storytellers. Some of my earliest memories revolve around my sister and I at play. Our stuffed animals served as our proxies, each with a distinct- if not as. Varied as we may have thought at the time- voice and personality. And then we wrote. My first stories were centered on video game characters, including Castlevania. 8217;s Simon Belmont, The Mario Brothers, and Link from The Legend of Zelda. I recall when my sister recei...

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Three Words That Became Hard To Say: May 2015

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Three Words That Became Hard To Say. Sunday, May 24, 2015. My best friend Mike could have tattooed his bicep with the image of a bowling pin. Mike shakes his head when he remembers these days. “Can you imagine if my dad hadn’t set me straight? His father explained that it would difficult to hack it as a professional bowler, and how many other opportunities were available to him. And he told him a bowling pin tattoo would look stupid. I asked why she had stopped following figure skating in college. It str...

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Three Words That Became Hard To Say: Hopeful Roads Converge

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Three Words That Became Hard To Say. Sunday, August 16, 2015. Over the course of my last eight months in Baltimore, I wrote a novel about a man hitchhiking across the country. Have a plan to get to work on time. It’s just that it was a really, really bad plan. For each novel I’ve written, I’ve gone through stages, from the brash beginnings of confidence and knowing. I was working on a masterpiece, to doldrums of manuscript fatigue and questioning everything about the project, to a period when the finish ...

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Three Words That Became Hard To Say: July 2015

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Three Words That Became Hard To Say. Sunday, July 19, 2015. For my first paying job, I worked the cash register, folded sweaters, and, on a few shockingly neither disastrous nor hilarious occasions offered fashion advice to paying customers. I worked at a clothing store at the Sangertown Square Mall, performing all of these tasks against a back drop of purple carpeting and a soundtrack split between top 40 and sundry European electro-pop. 8220;That’s it? 8221; I counted his change. The woman put a hand t...

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Three Words That Became Hard To Say: The Hoop Squad

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Three Words That Became Hard To Say. Sunday, June 7, 2015. There was a period in high school when on any given the day, a two word cry could be heard in the hallways. It started with a book. The first novel I wrote, entitled Free Throw. Tim caught word of my book and I told him the basics of the story. Months passed and I finished that pivotal first draft. Around that time, Tim asked me what had ever happened to Hoop Squad. But as far as I’m concerned, the best friendships in the world aren’t...This blog...

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Three Words That Became Hard To Say: December 2014

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Three Words That Became Hard To Say. Sunday, December 28, 2014. Since 2002, each December I have compiled a mix CD or playlist to document the past year- a soundtrack that charts memorable moments, trends, and events in my life over the preceding twelve months. The rules are as follows:. The collection must be short enough to fit on a standard 80-minute CD. The song choices are not bound by “favorites” so much as songs that are, in my mind, distinctively connected to the preceding year. Apply to at least...