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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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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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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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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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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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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Even if I were an atheist, I think I would believe in God after that, just because it seemed like the universe was putting such an exclamation point on our predicament. The tow truck showed…
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Stranded on a stretch of highway between Baker, California, and Las Vegas, both of us noticed the SUV pull in front of us on the side of the road. It was 107 degrees outside,…
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Yesterday’s death of Ray Bradbury got me thinking about his time at our Writer’s Symposium By The Sea in 2001, where he so delighted the audience that his appearance is one of the most memorable…
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