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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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When I interviewed a professor about the presidential election, he said there was something about those four-year cycles that resonated. Maybe it reminded him of college, the full revolution, he thought out loud. I had a habit of listening to hypotheticals, and it created a lot of unusable time on my voice recorder. This year,…
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“Can you write something for me?” Ben handed back the two save the date cards, which feature an engagement photo he captured for me and my bride to be. As Stephanie and I started thinking about what we’d scrawl on the back, Ben added, “Of course, I won’t read them until I’m back in China.”…
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The text messages came from out of nowhere, it seemed. But really, they came from my good friend, Willi. We hadn’t talked for a long time until he started sending me pictures of his new house. I didn’t even know he was looking for a house. The pictures showed an increasingly more violent campaign against…
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American Grace
Early this morning, my short story “American Grace” was posted to the Indiana Writers Center’s online literary journal, The Flying Island. This story is my first published creative writing piece besides those in the UIndy student literary magazine. I can’t tell you how many times I submitted this story, all with the same result: We’re sorry. This isn’t right for us right now.…
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UIndy Baseball
The season is barely in swing, and the Greyhounds’ freshman pitcher Jordan Tackett has been enjoying a lot of time off the bench already. “They said I’d be a weekend starter, but I didn’t expect to see four starts already,” he said. “And now I’ve got two complete games under my belt already with my…
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What happens to UIndy’s old computers
“On average, a brand new desktop on this campus lasts seven years—three years on its regular cycle in a lab, and then four years in place as a hand-me-down,” said Josh Banks, a technology support specialist at the University of Indianapolis. When the computers have reached their maximum use, employees of Green Wave Computer Recycling pick…
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Janet Drive (a prose poem)
Out of the driveway, you start out going north, towards the open top of this dead-end street. You cruise past all the houses of friends and neighbors—the old couple who never had kids, the boys who skateboard and tell dirty jokes, the man on his lawnmower who always stops to call the boys “girls” and…
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Lugar and Nunn speak at UIndy
In case you missed it, former Senators Richard Lugar and Sam Nunn spoke at the University of Indianapolis on Feb. 25. I had the privilege of talking to them, sitting in on the conversation and photographing the “Diplomacy in a Dangerous World” event. Lugar and Nunn spoke about turning nuclear weapons that were aimed at U.S.…
James Figy 