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So, Dad, Do You Remember World War II? Did It Remember You?

By deannelson on December 5, 2013

This essay of mine originally appeared in the December, 2013 edition of San Diego Magazine.   When my dad enlisted in the Army at age 19 to join those who wanted to stop Hitler’s march…
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Billy Collins, Brian Doyle Murray and I Did Play Golf Together. They Played Well. I Played…Well…

By deannelson on November 12, 2013

This story originally appeared in the October 2013 edition of Golf Getaways magazine. I’ll admit it. I was nervous. It’s not that I had something to prove in my upcoming golf game with former poet…
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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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