Isaac and Camber

Last night I slept alone, and by “alone”
I mean that you did not appear, despite
My tries to conjure you. My first attempt
Was near the window, when I commented
Aloud that only lonely men should stand
Alone at windows. Proud, I stepped away.
My second try was in the frown I gave –
A disapproving frown minority
Politicians would have traded [...]

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Dear readers,
This blog has been a lot of fun for me, but it’s time that I take a break from “regular” posting. Not that I’ve been too regular of a blogger, nor have I been at this blogging thing for too long – but things have picked up for me at work and at church, [...]

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Of all the great Wasatch peaks, Cascade Mountain is certainly the most ignored. It is so dwarfed (not by size – only by popularity) by nearby Mount Timpanogos, that many long-time residents of Utah County don’t even know its name. This is the mountain I mean:

Since I had never hiked it before, I organized a [...]

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Perhaps I’ve been watching too many action movies, but I really want to be able to control my final messages to those I love. I’ve had fantasies about getting a safety deposit box in a bank somewhere, hiding that fact from my wife, and then leaving inside of it notes for her to read after [...]

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A few weeks ago Camber and I found ourselves, quite unintentionally, standing on top of Arizona.
How, you may ask, does one accidentally climb to the top of a 12,637-foot high mountain? I shall tell you.
It’s true that we went down to Flagstaff, Arizona (Camber’s home town) for the express purpose of climbing this mountain. This [...]

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Dear France,
I am tired of your green beans.
Before you get overly excited – before you barricade L’Avenue des Champs-Élysées and set tires on fire – you need to know how much I have been afflicted by your green beans. What seems like years ago my wife, in a moment of excited weakness, decided to buy [...]

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A few days ago I decided it was finally time to clean out my old, dirty, yellow CD case I received from my friend Scott W. back in the 8th grade. (I can’t recall how I got the case, but it’s possible that it was under dubious circumstances. I probably still owe Scott a lot [...]

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Regular posts begin again on Monday. Sorry for the long dry spell. But there’s some good stuff coming that I think you’ll like.

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I just finished reading Fast Food Nation. And somewhere amid descriptions of maimed slaughterhouse workers, greedy fast food tycoons, and disease-riddled beef my stomach started to churn.
What have I been eating all these years? What I thought was ground beef was apparently laced with pesticides, antibiotics, E. coli, dead cows that had been fed to [...]

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I was tempted beyond that which I was able to bear.

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