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What Fingers Know
I overthink a lot of things. After more than 4 decades of tightening and loosening nuts and bolts, I can still confuse myself about which way to pull…
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My Ancestral Inheritance
My mom wanted her ashes spread in the river at her favorite campsite. So after the memorial service, my family and some of her close friends made the…
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Pruning my Apple Trees
So I engaged in the annual ritual of apple tree pruning the other day. It is the second year in a row I have done it. That makes…
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Putting in a Door
I spent about 10 years living on a hobby farm. Living there taught me a lot of things: the difference between time and calendars, how to be carried…
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Jape
Articles about guitarists inevitably take a turn toward describing their “rigs.” It’s usually in connection with discussion about their “tone.” When I was first learning to play guitar,…
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The Bullshit Quotient
So I have been thinking about Matthew Crawford’s assertion that, in the work of a mechanic, the bullshit quotient is low, “unless you’re dealing with Harley owners”. The…
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