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Meet the Author of 'Shy Guy Meets the Buddha'
And Learn How this Essay Series Got its Name
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If You're In the Shower, Be in the Shower
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My Bucket List is Empty, Thank Goodness
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I Blew My Chance to Be a Good Father.
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The Search for Meaning
What I learned about life as a builder of fine acoustic guitars.
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My Paper-Route Angel
How an Elderly Lady and her Annoying Poodle Opened my Mind
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A Letter to a Young Father
Politics, Parenting, and Love
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Respect for the Reader: Writing without Patronizing
Our writing craft will thank us when we have nothing to prove
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I Wrote a Children's Book without Realizing it was a Memoir
Seeing Myself in a Seagull
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Shame
It Threads Deep
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Musings on the Luck of Aliveness, including a Story about an Animated Pinto Bean who asks, "Why am I Me and Not Somebody Else?"
First you were born, then you asked "Why?"
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