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Hey Cellphone User! Oh, Never Mind

By deannelson on October 17, 2013

This essay of mine also appeared recently on Donald Miller’s Storylineblog. com site. Does this bother you as much as it bothers me:  A person is pushing a stroller, with the child facing the adult,…
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“When You Focus on the Things That Can Make You Crash, You’ll Crash”

By deannelson on August 16, 2013

                To put it simply, I guess I lost my focus. I was already a little anxious when the day began. A few of us were in British Columbia at a friend’s house, doing stuff…
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“When You Focus on the Things That Can Make You Crash, You’ll Crash”

By deannelson on August 16, 2013

                To put it simply, I guess I lost my focus. I was already a little anxious when the day began. A few of us were in British Columbia at a friend’s house, doing stuff…
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Evicting Rats, Digging Up Memories

By deannelson on July 19, 2013

  This was also posted on Donald Miller’s Storyline blog today. My wife and I had been putting off this task for some time. It was gross. That’s what we kept telling ourselves as we…
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A Tale of Two Golf Courses, But It’s Not Really About Golf

By deannelson on June 6, 2013

I visited two world-famous golf courses recently. One was Torrey Pines in La Jolla, California, and the other was in Port Au Prince, Haiti. One caters to the wealthy, and one was taken over by…
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The Crumbs From Their Table

By deannelson on May 23, 2013

Just a few molecules. A few strands of greatness left behind. That’s all I really want when I go into a place like Musso & Frank. It’s a fine restaurant on Hollywood Boulevard; it opened…
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Driving, Daughter and Dublin, Part III: The Diary

By deannelson on January 31, 2013

PART III — last in a series   We didn’t want to go to France. We wanted to spend a couple of hours in an Irish town called Cobh. Apparently there was more than one…
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Driving, Daughter and Dublin, Part II: “Where Do You Think You’re Going?”

By deannelson on January 10, 2013

PART II Last month I introduced my driving adventure in Ireland with my daughter while she was studying there for the summer. I had requested a car with an automatic transmission, and the good people…
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Driving, Daughter and Dublin, Part I: My Lucky Day?

By deannelson on December 17, 2012

Earlier this year I wrote about traveling cross-country with my son, with the false hope that our old Volvo would make it across the desert, over the mountains, and then live out the rest of…
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Volvo in Vegas, Part III: The Trump Card

By deannelson on August 25, 2012

   PART THREE — Conclusion On the Las Vegas Strip we looked for an anatomical sign, or even an astrological one, so that we would know whether to stay in Vegas and hope the Volvo…
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