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Moments saved.

Huh…

Huh…

I thought we all believed in the purple mountains’ majesty

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Juana

Juana

Juana Flores is sixty-two and has worked at the Shiloh Inn for twenty years.

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Shade

Shade

Sunny, mid-80s, a break in the shade in the middle of Iowa farm country…

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WTF Motel

WTF Motel

He stopped, bent down and out of the gutter picked up a bright, shiny Bowie knife and held it above his head

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Shattered Patella

Shattered Patella

Monday, Jane fell and broke her right patella and right arm and I’m home in Minneapolis (for those who don’t know me personally, Jane’s my wonderful wife of 29 years).

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Robert Preston’s America

Robert Preston’s America

Southeastern Minnesota and northeastern Iowa were as charismatic as ever, tall corn lapping against pretty farm buildings, rolling hills and gently winding roads with little traffic, well-tended towns with kids in shorts celebrating their last days of freedom, the skies blue and the weather not too hot.

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When The Road Is Good

When The Road Is Good

Once in a while, when the road is good and the air temperature and humidity and the thrum of intake, ignition and exhaust are just so, motorcycling creates its own ethereality. Yesterday was like that.

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An Odd and Fitting Talisman

An Odd and Fitting Talisman

America is a beautiful thing... In the Army, I was a reconnaissance specialist assigned to the 1/1 Cavalry Squadron at O’Brien Barracks in Schwabach, West Germany. We spent several months of the year in the field and I needed a knife, a heavy, general purpose knife...

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A Damn Nice Way To End The Day

A Damn Nice Way To End The Day

Chatting it up with a bearded, long-haired local in a camo-schemed 70’s Chevy 4×4 pickup idling along a gravel track in a secluded State Recreation Area is not a story, it’s a movie.

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