• The Carnegie-Morrissey Connection

    ​Yesterday Elise and I had this text exchange: I’d been sick the entire day and all I did was lay around reading, snacking, and napping. After this exchange I ending…

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  • Shitloads of sand all over the place

    I’m at a little bit of a loss as to what to write, as my thoughts about my commonplace book are not very defined right now. As I had suspected,…

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  • Insta-poetry and Insta-piration

    I’m sitting in the Phoenix airport waiting for my sister’s plane to arrive. We’re spending a long weekend together, living it up in Sedona with a little side trip to…

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  • Tighty-Whities: A Tangent

    I’ve been editing books for coming up on twelve years now. And I like to think that this far into the game, I’m good at it. Strike that–I know I…

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  • ​The Dunning–Kruger Effect

    This weekend we were driving down to Tacoma and because it’s a long and boring ride we listened to a This American Life podcast on the way. Ira Glass talked…

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  • Human Wreckage

     That was my entry in my commonplace book today. I heard the phrase in a song and liked the sound of it, so I wrote it down. Morbid, yes, but…

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  • A Kick Ass Commonplace Book

    An early mind map from Vic I’ve been dreaming of a commonplace book for quite some time now, ever since seeing a fantastic exhibit at Seattle’s Henry Art Gallery by…

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  • 2016 Year in Review

    Good to great stuff that happened this year: Shit things that happened this year: ​This is how I will get through this. I remember to balance all of the good…

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