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• OH Canada!

  June 3, 2013

  1200 miles later and here we are, perched on the Western Coast of BC, an hour away from driving onto a ferry and weaving through islands big and small, finally landing in Ketchikan. We'll stay the night there and tomorrow night, too, and then we'll take our final ferry to Prince of Wales Island, ...

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• portland-austin-portland-alaska

  May 28, 2013

  I'm on the austin-portland leg of that journey. austin was completely incredible. i've cooked with my aunt for buddhist retreats before but this time i was the boss and i am really, really proud of the work we did. alex was my assistant. we worked so well together. we communicated so fluently. we...

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• fecal excitement!

  April 12, 2013

  I can't wait to poop in the woods again. The years that I pooped more in the outdoors than I did in toilets and slept more often on the ground than in a bed are a time that I'm always going to be longing for in some part of me. And now I get to…

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• all of a sudden

  January 23, 2013

  I've spent the last month freaking out about not having an actual job (selling chocolates for a pitiable 10 hours a week is, surprise surprise, not cutting it as far as both money and self-respect go). I've spent days opening craigslist tabs in my browser that seem like plausible job opportunitie...

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• 10pm in December

  December 11, 2012

  80 year old Clea definitely has pink hair. She wants me to know that the only way she is ever going to get to sit in over a thousand beautiful hot springs around the world or live near Wharariki Beach in New Zealand is if I start writing ridiculously awesome novels right away that everyone…

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• business cards

  November 27, 2012

  I've been writing every morning, three pages. I'm doing The Artist's Way. It's been life-changing. I hit a low, a really low one, at the beginning of it. Because I spend so much time in my life quieting the qualms of my subconscious self, and when you are forced to use your hand to write…

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• 10/29/2012

  October 28, 2012

  I used to open up Wordpad, turn the font size up to about 150 so I could only see one or two words at a time on the screen, and then type until there was no more thought directing my fingers. My life isn’t feeling very peachy here most of the time. There have been…

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• From here, where?

  October 27, 2012

  Words used to fall out of me. When I was in high school, if I had to wait for something for longer than five minutes I'd spend the time writing. Sure, it wasn't profound shit or anything but at least it was some sort of output. These days I'm just constantly seeking input. Don't have…

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• holy shit guys

  September 19, 2012

  Life is pretty stressful. So, I fully intended to not write an entry until I could post Fuji pictures and I was going to tell that whole story but because my computer is kind of sucktastic that fell through and now I have way more recent shit to talk about than Fuji. I have about…

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