The Apparently Evil Shirt (Volume 8, August - October, 1980)
August 12, 1980, Tuesday Yesterday this old man — a white guy with white hair and three teeth (each about 1 1/2” long) got on the bus I...
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Jun 23, 20171 min read
How Life Should Be, All The Time (Volume 16, February-March, 1982)
(I moved from the city back home with my mother in a Chicago suburb soon after my father died. I lived with her for almost a year. I was...
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Jun 20, 20176 min read
Ex-husband Summer (Volume 37, January - July, 1992)
(This volume covers part of my second year of graduate school and the summer after. I spent much of that summer back in Seattle, helping...
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Jun 18, 20174 min read
Subbing and Stubbing (Volume 78, March - June, 2001)
Wednesday, March 7, 2001 This morning we drove to Rockbridge to buy more sawdust and shavings at the sawmill. As soon as we pulled away...
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May 10, 201710 min read
First Motherless Christmas (Volume 70, November 15, 1999 - January 9, 2000)
Friday, New Year’s Eve, 1999 I’m supposed to be amazingly reflective on the eve of the new millennium. I’m too busy cleaning up manure,...
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Apr 22, 20171 min read
She Does What?! (Volume 84, August-October, 2002)
October 1, 2002 Part of my mad stint of socializing included lunch with Dawn Kiefer, “my” reporter from the Richland Observer. Her e-mail...
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Apr 14, 20173 min read
Suicide and 9/11 (Volume 80, September 19, 2001- January 2, 2002)
September 19, 2001 I told her how suicidal I’d been during August. I told another friend when I talked to her earlier in the evening. I’m...
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Apr 7, 20171 min read
Meatballs (Volume 102, June-October, 2009)
Thursday, July 9, 2009 Monday evening Cheryl brought a frame over for a cement marker for Shawn’s grave. She’s taking advantage of our...
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Mar 29, 20172 min read
Bunny and Elephants (Volume 112, June-July, 2012)
July 5, 2012 Sunday morning we walked Sylvie. There was a beautiful bunny munching grass near the foot of the driveway. “Hi, Bunny!” I...
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Mar 24, 20174 min read
Horse-Happy Kid (Volume 7, April-August 1980)
July 17, 1980 When I love him the most is when I’m the coldest and aloof-est (sometimes). Or else it’s times like last night, after the...
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Mar 12, 20171 min read
A Conversation with Dewey (Volume 132, February 2017 - ?)
(One more passage from my current journal) March 9, 2017 Dewey has been caked with mud for the past few days. The mud layer finally dried...
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Feb 18, 20174 min read
Stupid Fight (Volume 64, October 1998-January 1999)
Thursday, November 5, 1998 Ellis is losing it. The financial pressure he's under is making him weird and mean. He picked a fight today,...
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Feb 15, 20174 min read
Of Monkeys and Horses (Volume 73 (again!), May-August 2000)
(I spent a lot of time in the spring and summer of 2000 looking for a companion horse for my horse, Rabbit.) Sunday, July 9, 2000 Jeanne...
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Feb 10, 20172 min read
The Self-Serving Dream (Volume 15, January-February, 1982)
Wednesday, February 17, 1982 Last night I oil painted. There is no art form which compares to oil painting - it is so mysterious, subtle,...
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Feb 1, 20174 min read
The New Horse (Volume 73, May-August, 2000)
(This entry was written three days after my second horse, Dewey, was delivered. I got him because my first horse, Rabbit, a yearling,...
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Jan 25, 20171 min read
Stoned Again (Volume 3, Dec. 1977-March 1978)
(Writing stoned produced a lot of "sics" - so this "sic" applies to all incorrect spellings, bad grammar and punctuation and bizarre word...
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Jan 24, 20172 min read
The Snot Mother (Volume 66, March-May, 1999)
(Today is my birthday, so it's fitting that I opened to a passage about my mother.) April 9, 1999 I'm so angry with my mother. She's such...
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Jan 17, 20172 min read
New Saddle (First Pick, Volume 83, May-August, 2002)
(This is weird - I just went to my shelves full of journals, kind of guessed which area this volume might reside in - and pulled it on...
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Jan 17, 20171 min read
The Journal Project Introduction
I have been keeping journals since I was seventeen. Currently I am on Volume 131. I have always harbored the idea that I would one day,...
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