Category Archives: home

Taco Del Mar

When I was 15 and we moved to Washington, I fully expected for the entire state to be covered in flannel with blue hair singing along to Kurt Cobain. Instead we moved to Tonasket, which was covered in Wranglers with … Continue reading

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My first stab at memoir

I am once again posting homework. The final project in one of my classes is to write a ten page memoir essay. After thinking about it and starting over many times I finally just went back to what I always … Continue reading

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It’s Tax Time!

I’m not going to dive deep into the politics behind why this is going to happen, but this Friday our lovable IRS is going to make a deposit into my checking account. The bunches of spunk over there decided that … Continue reading

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How to be a server without going crazy

Serving is easy, when you break it down. People ask for things and you bring them those things. If servers were soulless beings than there could never be a complaint about the job they posses ever. It’s just that simple … Continue reading

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Kristiane’s posting her homework again…

This is an essay in a series of related essays So, if it parts don’t make sense it is because it is in the middle of the series. For the entirety of my childhood the whole family was expected to … Continue reading

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Spring?…Training!

As I sit here and write it is an amazing -3 degrees outside the window two feet to my left. However at this very same time there is a truck being loaded a few miles away that will carry the … Continue reading

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Ears

At birth I took my sweet time entering the sterile world of the delivery room and my ears paid the price. The pressure on my soft cartilage cause them to stick out straight like handles on a large trophy for … Continue reading

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Max

Some of you know already, and for the rest of you: I have a son. His name is Max and I am among the millions of parents that believe their child is the funniest most talented and smartest child alive. … Continue reading

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One night about 12am in June, 1994

    “I bet they’re asleep” my sixteen year old sister Sarah said. She was whispering from the top of one of two bunk bed sets placed side by side in the bedroom the four of us were sharing. I … Continue reading

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Technology

Sometimes I feel a like Kip, though I have yet to sing about it. At six o’clock Monday through Friday I wake up to a brief but loud series of beeps. It’s coming from the desk in my make shift … Continue reading

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