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Where Do You Go To Heal a Broken Heart?

By deannelson on December 8, 2015

This essay of mine originally appeared on Donald Miller’s Storyline Blog.   I think it was the ax that made me stop the longest. It was the ax a man used to break up his…
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When All That You Have Is Exactly What Someone Needs

By deannelson on December 8, 2015

This essay of mine originally appeared on Donald Miller’s Storyline Blog.   David and I walk through the hilly, rocky area that used to be his bean field. He reaches down and pulls up a…
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Plotting Revenge Feels So Good, Until It Doesn’t

By deannelson on December 8, 2015

This essay of mine originally appeared on Donald Miller’s Storyline Blog.   I have a friend who rides bikes. Expensive bikes. Ultra-light bikes. And you know what the rule is about bikes, right? The lighter…
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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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Now Appearing in Donald Miller’s Burnside Writer’s Collective; Announcing the Start of My Million Inches Tour

By deannelson on October 1, 2009

I have been a fan of Donald Miller’s ever since reading Blue Like Jazz. The humor, the depth, the doubt, all drew me into his attempt to live a life that was honest, difficult and…
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