Common Discourse
I spent all of last week in a house on the Michigan / Indiana state boarder near Lake Michigan. On the left side of the house we were in Eastern Time Zone, and on the right side of the house my phone flipped back to Central Time Zone. I took a few calls and the entire time was q…
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We’re constantly forgetting that you’re supposed to take off work on Federal Holidays. Every two months it goes something like this:*Friday evening*“Wa…
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I mostly think people on the internet are evil, but there are little moments that remind me that not all of humanity is crumbling. I love that the wins…
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Something terrible I have to admit, for somebody that writes so much about being consistent, is that I’ve been terribly inconsistent in my writing prac…
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Good morning and happy Tuesday! At the beginning of the year I wrote a newsletter expressing my struggle with writing over the last several years, and …
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The last few weeks have felt like the coming days of a long-awaited trip that has been planned for over a year. Sometimes the planning, outfit selectio…
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Goooooood morning. Thanks for calling me out last week as I tried to fly by the radar without publishing. My 21 year old brother is in Los Angeles stay…
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I still remember when a kid I went to high school with begged me to sell kitchen knives with him door to door, which to me, never sounded fun no matter…
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