There’s something about the way this machine and my fingers interact, about the immediacy and the physicality of words landing on the page that isn’t replicated on a computer screen.
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May 12th, 2010 I’m going to someplace not Portland this weekend. If you feel like following me, you might head east of Idaho, south of the Hudson Bay, north of Mali and west of Bhutan. However, if I were staying town, there are a number of things I might do: Check out what Read the rest of Do what I would do. May 5th, 2010 I’ve been skirting a number of un-publicly-expressed goals of mine during the 2010 Blogathon, or so I’d like to say. I knew when I agreed to participate in the Blogathon that I’d run headlong into a passion of mine or two. Except when meeting a reporting deadline, I don’t believe in writing Read the rest of Hesitations February 14th, 2009
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A few weeks ago I started typing on one of my dad’s old typewriters. The arms of each key on the Royal Arrow moved slowly, as if moving through molasses. My words tripped over themselves, caught in the