December 2011
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Perhaps the World Ends Here.
The world begins at a kitchen table. No matter what, we must eat to live. The gifts of earth are brought and prepared, set on the table so it has been since creation, and it will go on. We chase chickens or dogs away from it. Babies teethe at the corners. They scrape their knees under it. It is here that children are given instructions on what it means to be human. We make men at it, we...
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Who the heck is Otterly Cute?
Earlier this year, the editor of WWF’s magazine ‘Natura’ asked me to write a story for children with themes of environment and conservation. I got extremely excited about this opportunity because a) I love telling stories, and b) conservation gets my full support. I went through rough drafts of a few ideas I already had but finally settled on writing something entirely new.
It...
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“I’m a word freak. I like words. I’ve always compared writing to music. That’s...”
– Hunter S.Thompson (via atomiclanterns)
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