The Key of G

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Put Down the Phone and Turn Off Your Device
How to take breaks from media and the digital world
 • Gentry Bronson
Jimi Hendrix, My Dad, and Me on the Fourth of July
My first real Independence Day was a musical revolution led by my father and the ghost of a guitar god
 • Gentry Bronson
How to Swim Across the Mississippi with a Broken Arm
The aimless teenage summer day we decided to cross the river
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My Magic Watch
How I discovered its astounding powers over three decades
Published on The Narrative Arc • 
Tom Cat the Owl Man Was My Cellmate
He helped me survive jail time
Published on The Memoirist • 
Becoming a Scoundrel in Key West
During the winter I was nineteen, I drove from Seattle to the Keys and learned to tend bar from a queen while I fell in love with three enchanted…
 • Gentry Bronson
Finding Heaven and Hell in Turkey
I came close to death and a truck filled with chocolate returned me to life
 • Gentry Bronson
The Key of G
The Key of G
Stories from my beautifully strange and weirdly robust past, along with articles about the present, interspersed with life as a musician, traveler, water person, and practicing meditator. Expect tragicomedy, transformation, and what's between both.
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