Tag: driving
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November 16, 2017
I’ve been traveling for a good portion of this year, but I am finally home. And now I am settling into a journey of a different sort—a novel writing journey. I keep reminding myself of E.L. Doctorow’s words about writing, that it is like driving at night. Doctorow said, “You can only see as far…
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November 25, 2014
A SMALL THANKSGVING STORY One Thanksgiving, a long time ago, I was driving down Highway 27 in Central Florida. It was early in the morning. The highway was layered in a dense, low-lying, patchy fog. I was twenty-nine years old, and I wanted to be someone other than who I was. I had no idea…
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June 7, 2012
This picture was taken on the way up to a friend’s cabin. Every time I look at it, I think of one of my favorite Bruce Springsteen songs, which starts this way: “I’m driving a big lazy car, rushing up the highway in the dark.” And those words of Springsteen’s make me think, in turn,…