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Professor, writer, hiker.

Poem for Eliezane

Haven’t had much time for creative writing lately, and my typewriters have been giving me sad-dog eyes. I dreamt this up for Eliezane last night. I woke up at around 4AM with the words swirling in my brain. Now the dogs are playing.

Mission Accomplished: The Ups and Downs of Project Samsquanch

Project Samsquanch Is a Go: Hiking and Bike-Packing in Colorado

Fighting the Good Fight against Artificial Intelligence

A Brief Adventure into the Forest: Happy Trails

We shall always love you, Scout.

Riding Roads and Writing Poems

Prepping for an Adventure: Bikepacking

Grief, Silence, Sound, and Fury

Small Transformations

Learning some new words from John Banville: brumous, nacreous, oubliette, oneiric, velleity. Toni Morrison taught me gelid.

Biking Culture in the Navajo Nation

Link to non-profit Silver Stallion (donations welcome): https://silverstallion.org

Farewell, Tim Wakefield.

Reaching the Summit of Tsoodzil (Mount Taylor)

One More Line for the Typewriter Manifesto:

Hot for Teacher: Climate Change and Education in America

Project Samsquanch: Bike-Packing the Colorado Trail

A New Hobby: Leather Craft

Necro-Anthropology and the Heart of Darkness in Cormac McCarthy’s Southwest

Happy Bloomsday from Texas, and so long Cormac McCarthy.

On the Subject of Work and Life

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compositioniiv2

engl1120summercourse4week

Composition I (Summer Course)

Composition I

I built a mountain bike (FROM SCRATCH)

because my AI robot doesn't exist to do it for me (and would I really trust it?!?!) :)

Mountainbiker

Finding motivation to love riding!

CHRISTIE FITZPATRICK

film + digital photographer

Michigan Typochondriacs

Everything typewriters in Michigan and beyond

Writing Rules

grammar, usage, and style

Composition II (ENGL1120)

An Analog Diary

Collect - Converse - Convert

Composition 1 (ENGL 1110)

Writing Course

The Brokedown Pamphlet

war some of the time

Michael Prihoda

Author - Editor - Freelance Writer

L.T. Hanlon

Amsterdam Assassin Series

Suspense Fiction by Martyn V. Halm. Mail: katlasieltjes@yahoo.com. haiku/poetry on Instagram: @amsterdamassassin. Twitter: @Tao_Of_Violence. Facebook: katla.sieltjes

The Jazz Duck

reflections on the jazz canon / building a jazz library / new jazz, reissues, & archival releases

Jazz With an Accent

Global music in the 21st century

Blog di iljazzsecondoandrea

Jazz Desk

News, reviews and reflections from the world of jazz.

a rambling collective

Short Fiction by Nicola Humphreys

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