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Personal

Do bookstores matter?

November 16, 2009 Observations

For years—perhaps decades—my dad would walk to the flagship Kroch’s and Brentano’s store on South Wabash on Chicago, spending his lunch hour among the famously knowledgeable booksellers and the then-amazing array of inventory. I only remember being in that downtown store once or twice, but the mall Kroch’s and Brentano’s in the town where I [...]

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Actually social media

April 7, 2009 Observations

I attended a little liberal arts college in Wisconsin, where we well-off kids were dipped into a fantasy island of hippie liberalism in the middle of a devastated post-industrial blue-collar town. We had to stick together or intoxicate ourselves out of our minds to keep the consensual reality held together, and generally it worked pretty [...]

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Make a museum

January 25, 2009 Being a Dad

My daughter claims she wants to be an artist, and decided (all on her own) that she wanted to create a museum featuring her favorite "cruisers" (her word for art projects) that she had made in the past year.
So she went through the archives, selected a bunch of her favorites, and we decided to [...]

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Enjoy This Wonderful Day

January 15, 2009 Personal

On the surface, today has been just a terrible day. Many minor disappointments, some Very Bad News for a friend, a farewell to one of the great leaders of my company. And it’s fucking cold.
Sadness aplenty.
But then I got home.
And my daughter showed me one of her school projects.

And then I opened the mail, which [...]

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Seven Things

January 14, 2009 Observations

The seven things meme, as rendered by yours truly (@mikemorrow). Not really all that interesting—this is definitely harder than I thought, but I also didn’t want to spend too much time agonizing over what to say.
Stick around here long enough and you’ll get to know me better, I’m sure.
Not that I was asking for [...]

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The Green Light

January 14, 2009 Being a Dad

In the middle of a cul de sac in the town where we used to live is a little island of grass and a single, nondescript street lamp that holds the stature of myth in our family.
I speak of The Green Light.
The Green Light, so named and mythologized by my daughter at two [...]

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My Future Author Award

January 7, 2009 Being a Writer

What you’re looking at here is one of the most important artifacts of my life. I have had it with me as long as I’ve lived on my own, and even while it languished in a box in my parents’ basement it was never forgotten.
It’s a classic scenario, probably as common today as it was [...]

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