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White Silk: I.xii
List of Chapters Previous Section I.xii I find myself a stable, but there’s not anything there I like, so I find the another. See, there’s three full-on selling stables here in Marsh, on account of...
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Native American Myths About Yellowstone
Crows in the Yellowstone: Image courtesy of Martin Grelle Yellowstone: A Sacred, Secret Land Early American explorers spread the misconception that Native Americans feared Yellowstone and viewed it as...
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Yellowstone Adventures
This is the hub page for my trek to Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons. You can find all of my content linked through this page. The entries themselves will be posted over the course of the next couple...
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Yellowstone Adventure Journal: Toward Yellowstone
Return to the hub page for more Yellowstone-related content. A quick note on this journal: This journal is primarily what I wrote while on the Yellowstone expedition itself. I’ve corrected some typos,...
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Yellowstone Adventure Journal: Lava Flows & Earthquake Lake
Return to the hub page for more Yellowstone-related content. The Lava Flows: Feeling a Little Basalted The Lava Flows This is our first official stop; we just finished resting. I walked around with my...
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White Silk: I.xiii
List of Chapters Previous Section I.xiii Now, “Willow” just don’t seem quite right to me. I mean, this horse is beautiful, no doubt, but I think “Willow,” I think the tree, with all those slender...
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Between a Magazine and a Microwave
Between a Magazine and a Microwave: A Modern Scylla and Charybdis As part of a future entry (“The Fact of Our Bodies”), I wrote a fair deal about the difficulty of developing a positive relationship...
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Yellowstone Adventure Journal: Tower Falls
Return to the hub page for more Yellowstone adventures. The second day of the trip was definitely more active and adventurous. I’m writing here at the end of it, despite that. I just didn’t feel like...
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White Silk: I.xiv
List of Chapters Previous Section I.xiv At the front of the lodge building, just behind where Waypoint sells its fare and brews, Daddy stops in front of the door. We’ve already loaded up my horse....
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White Silk: I.xv
List of Chapters Previous Section I.xv With the slate stones all thick with water, each flash of lightening overhead boils through the dark gray of the clouds and reflects up off the stones all around...
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Why do creative people suffer from depression?
Like many creative types, I struggle with clinical depression. The trick here is that “clinical depression” often means “depression that we’ve tried to medicate.” Many writers, artists, and...
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White Silk: Exc. I.iii
List of Chapters Previous Section I.iii Segments from the Saga V.S.T., 7th Part, verses 9 to 14 9. And verily, thereafter, in the days of woe, when nary a tear was spared amongst all the armies of...
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7 Creepiest Stories of All Time
It’s October, which means it’s time to scare ourselves. For me, slasher films, gore, outright violence, and sudden attacks of “horror” do little. But “creepy” stories are different. I’m entirely...
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White Silk: I.xx
List of Chapters Previous Section I.xx It takes three tries to get back up into the saddle. My right leg is still bleeding, but still as winter too. I finally do get up, and when I do I have no option...
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White Silk: Exc. I.iv
List of Chapters Previous Section Exc. I.iv From Chronicles of the Lotus Wars by Helman Loth, R.S., R.H. (1st Ed. published P.V. 1001) During my long voyage to chronicle the finer details of our...
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6 Steps for Nailing the First Week of NaNoWriMo
We’re on Day 3 of NaNo and I’m already behind! Shall we all gape for a moment in feigned surprise? The reality is, being behind doesn’t surprise me at all. It’s not that my creative juices aren’t...
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White Silk: I.xxi
List of Chapters Previous Section I.xxi When the sun breaks through the window it takes me a bit to figure on where I am. It starts to piece together slow. The stiff in my muscles, the pain in my leg,...
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White Silk: I.xxii
List of Chapters Previous Section I.xxi By the time I make it to Worth, my leg is a touch stiff but at least feels more like flesh than wood. And my sense of all being beautiful and kind has maybe...
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White Silk: I.xxiii
List of Chapters Previous Section I.xxiii There’s some anger from a couple of the other guards when they see a woman’s joining their company, but Rethi quiets them quick enough and gets us on our way....
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