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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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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 II: In Search of a Sign

By deannelson on August 17, 2012

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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Volvo in Vegas, Part I: The Desert Speaks

By deannelson on August 10, 2012

  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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Hanging Out With Ray Bradbury

By deannelson on June 6, 2012

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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Dean Interviews John Ortberg

By deannelson on February 17, 2012
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