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To Kill a Chickenbird
Or, The Marshall Vacation Begins
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Out of Office for July
How I'll be spending the month and some links to other of my recent appearances.
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We will be okay
But how okay are we talking?
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A Nightmare Dressed Like a Daydream
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A Renaissance is Upon Us
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A Career of Choice
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We will be okay
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In Defense of Yard Talk
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The Turning Tides
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Questioning Cloacina
Sewers and Sex, Monks and Muck
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The Tower of Apple
Technoenthusiasm and the ancient promise of god-tier omnipotence are so back.
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Saw this one coming
Better to have labored and lost a finger than never to have labored at all, or something like that.
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The Hand I Read
A tribute to the wordless masters we read.
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On Scrabble and Studying
An homage to my mom
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A Nightmare Dressed Like a Daydream
Apple's new ad and the limits of disembodied creativity
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The Turning Tides
The number of young American wrench-turners is swelling, just like Mike Rowe wanted
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I Am Alive
Work, Vocation, and Savoring the Serendipitous
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Craft and Theology: The Reason
The third of my Front Porch Republic essays
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The Blue Scholar
The Blue Scholar
What do plumbing and St. Benedict have in common? Me. Writing about ora et labora—prayer and work—vocation, theology, philosophy, blue collar life, the trades, plumbing, technology, tools, culture, and more.
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