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Asking questions can lead you to new places. Writing helps bring you to answers. And more questions.
Here, I’ve collected writings on a number of topics. Sometimes they’ve been published elsewhere, and other times they’re just for this blog.
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While working to survive the first year of grad school, I scribbled down some notable quotables in class, at events, wherever. Some good ones popped up as recently I flipped through my notes.
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Michael Martone by Michael Martone My rating: 4 of 5 stars The narrator Michael Martone is talking on the subject of Michael Martone in the book Michael Martone by writer Michael Martone of Fort Wayne, Indiana, which is, strangely enough, the birthplace of the author Michael Martone. The voice is matter of fact, copying the…
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(So humans should learn to be awesome owners.) I didn’t originally want a rabbit. But Stephanie was adamant. We were going to get the little gray guy her friend was giving away, and we’d figure out the rest later. It wasn’t until we picked him up that we learned the dwarf rabbit’s name: Frodo. Which absolutely had to…
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Shut up and write
Or, how my octogenarian grandfather taught me something thousands of tuition dollars didn’t So I’ve been moping around, trying to write this and that, and complaining about having no time. I am a busy guy. Hand on the Bible. I’m working two jobs, planning a wedding, trying to be a good fiancé, sibling, friend, literary…
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One week with glasses
A bespectacled retrospective Oh God, I thought, sitting on eye doctor’s the rolling chair, I’m more blind than I thought. The soft voiced assistant, a portly older man, had given me one task: Stare at the green light with my right eye. But I couldn’t even find it, so I moved my head around the…
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Put me in, coach
I got a little too close to the action Friday night while on assignment for the Mooresville-Decatur Times. I’d just moved to this spot when… well, you know what’s about to happen right after the shutter closed.
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Longtime coming Vonnegut documentary needs support
The authorized biography of Kurt Vonnegut Jr. needs your help. The film, which has been thirty-some years in the making, launched a KickStarter campaign Tuesday to crowd-fund $250,000 to finish Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time. Filmmaker extraordinaire Robert Weide was only twenty-two when he met Kurt, then sixty, in 1982. Yet the two struck up…
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Holy Cross stories, pt. 2: Society of Salvage+Rewired Antiques
When I wrote my profile of Holy Cross, I had to cut down to the essentials to capture the neighborhood as a whole. So, while I want folks to read my article (Click here: Holy Cross Neighborhood in Downtown Indy Resurges with New Homes, Businesses) I’d also like to share these stories. Society of Salvage +…
James Figy 