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Well, This Is Awkward

Lowen Baumgarten

09 Mar 2012 — 1 min read

Ten days is the longest I've gone without updating this blog, so I'm sorry to anyone who's been following it.

But it's a good reason I've been out of commission: it was my birthday last weekend, I'm trying to hire an intern, and I've been coming back from the gym so beat up I pretty much just shower and fall asleep.

Most experienced and sucessful writers say the solution is to do your creative writing discipline in the morning, just like athletes would tell you the best way to ensure you get your exercise in for the day is by working out in the morning. The problem is I'm a ham-fisted ogre in the morning. It's usually noon before all the pea soup drains out of my skull and I can think, let alone string two sentences together.

So anyway, the next few posts might be pretty quick and dirty until I catch-up.

More Comfortably Numb

There are days when I'm looking at my life through thick glass. I think you know the feeling. There are days when you care, and days when you... don't. Can't?

Sky Pilgrims

Kerstin and I camp in a pony pasture and chase the solar eclipse across Texas.

Sound of Music Sing-Along

We popped out into the sun-bleached streets, and there beside us were Corrin and Dafne, rising up the BART escalator. “Hey! You dressed up!” Corrin lit up and Dafne ducked behind him. With eight minutes to curtain, we walked briskly in the summer breeze. Kerstin nearly started skipping, a will-o’

Second-Time Karaoke Covid

I guess it was my fault. Kerstin would like the karaoke condoms to be accessible, right as you’re running out the door. In case of a karaoke emergency. I moved them, in a fit of spring cleaning, to the champagne bucket under the table with the car keys and

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More Comfortably Numb

Sky Pilgrims

Sound of Music Sing-Along

Second-Time Karaoke Covid