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A Random Writing Recipe

Thumbnail image for A Random Writing Recipe by Michael Katz November 10, 2011

I have to confess, now that my youngest child is nearly a teenager, I often find myself nostalgic for the days when the kids were diaper-wearing toddlers. Of course that’s a complete lie. I don’t miss those days at all, other than, perhaps, for the fact that gasoline was two dollars a gallon and my [...]

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Do You Look Familiar?

Thumbnail image for Do You Look Familiar? by Michael Katz September 15, 2011

I got a call the other day from my old college friend Rob, in Vancouver. (Long-time readers with steel trap memories and uneventful lives of their own will remember Rob as the subject of this 2005 newsletter.) He and I spent a lot of time together in school but gradually lost touch. Having just dropped [...]

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You’ve Got a Friend

Thumbnail image for You’ve Got a Friend by Michael Katz July 1, 2011

Despite having lived my entire life in the Northeast, I’ve always been drawn to the desert. I’m pretty sure it started back in 1988, when my not-yet-wife Linda and I took a two-week vacation out west, driving from Denver to Phoenix in a rental car. It was one of those “make it or break it” [...]

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