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Jun
26
The First Hundred Years
Ten years passed. Jaz was depressed. She sat on the counter all day, eating blueberry cobbler, refusing to serve one more cup of coffee to anyone.
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Sep
20
Defiant Dispatch: A Traveler Soundtrack
While I took inspiration from many songs while writing Traveler, these seven are referenced in the book.
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Oct
26
Noon on a Saturday
South Congress is the Austin strip, a tourist magnet. It's also on top of a hill, with about ten thousand more hills between me and it.
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Sep
14
Barefoot, with a Sword
I'm not one for princesses, unless they come bearing swords.
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Jul
06
Kindreds in Pursuit of a Life
Chris Hardwick is interviewing Paul McCartney, and I can't stop smiling: McCartney is so good.
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Jun
22
Chaos and Two Sweaters
"I just realized I don't need to go to work for another hour," Jer says to me one morning. "So I could have been without pants this whole time."
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May
16
A Rare Poem, about Spring
(While listening to Pilgrims on a Long Journey)
Bare trees, branches
cold beneath iron skies,
frost biting down on the
Apr
25
Bookends
I open the blinds in the morning and see two pudgy robins chasing each other through a tangle of gray branches, and I know winter is over.
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Feb
13
Telepathy, and an Excerpt
When I was young, nine or ten, I used to try mind reading.
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Jan
01
Welcome
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