An Ordinary Disaster

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Love as a place
a clutch of roses dropped in a Capp Street crosswalk
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Chapter 14 — A desperate move, a mistake, and a wreck that made everything worse.
An Ordinary Disaster — chapter 14 — How to Make an Actual Life Error
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Chapter 15 — Saved by a climbing gym, two real friends, kitesurfing, and a half-naked haircut.
An Ordinary Disaster — chapter 15 — Meeting the Mentor
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"Writing yourself into existence" with Lyle McKeany
Writing yourself into existence, how writing is like music, whether men can say “sex”, writing memoir as a man, what we're afraid to write about…
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Bowen Dwelle
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Lyle McKeany
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Let's open it up
Memoir only for the moment, done with previews, new interview format, and memoir on Substack
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Chapter 3 — Starting a business at the age of nine to sell D&D books
An Ordinary Disaster — chapter 03 — North Dallas Forty
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Chapter 17 — Learning that I didn't have to do it all myself
An Ordinary Disaster — chapter 17 — Joining Up
Who Holds You?
An Ordinary Disaster — chapter 26 — Who Holds You?
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What I'm Reading, July–August 2022
John Wineland, Raymond Chandler, Lauren Hough, Rob Halford, Traver Boehm, Melissa Febos, Tabitha Lasley, and Dorothy Carrington
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Bowen Dwelle
Chapter 4 — LSD + Rocky Horror = ?
An Ordinary Disaster — chapter 04 — The Wall
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Appreciating the uniquely delicious feeling of the last time
Extreme sports, sailing, intuition, fear, closing chapters consciously, and creating a relationship with death
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I'm here to be myself as much as possible—and the absolute truth can only be...nothing.
A conversation about meaning, identity, physicality, and purpose with Bowen Dwelle and Andy Johns
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