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Trip report—why traveling through the mountains in April is a bad idea

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I have a couple of essays to post this weekend once I transcribe them from my paper journal to digital. But in the meantime, I thought I would post a pic or two from San Fran, as well as write about the trip home. I had forgotten that the storage […]

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Just Shelley Weblogging

So much to say

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The best thing about a road trip covering a lot of miles (4300 miles, round trip) is returning home, sleeping in one’s own bed, and waking up in the morning realizing that you don’t have to drive through the pouring rain. It looks like the storm that’s haunted my steps […]

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Just Shelley Weblogging

Special, special friends

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I arrived in St. Louis during rush hour tonight, pretty tired. As I was waiting for 1400+ emails to download (most junk, natch), I tripped out to my favorite weblogs. That’s when I discovered Jonathon’s Keep the Bird Burning campaign. I am too tired tonight to do this justice, but Jonathon, and […]

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Just Shelley Weblogging

Blogging by the Bay

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I’m sitting in an Internet café overlooking the Bay trying to clean up an inordinate amount of email, most of it junk. Notice to friends, one an all — when did it become a regular thing to send emails out every time you post a new weblog posting? Believe me […]

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Writing

Shaped by the Audience

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. When introducing the audience as a key component of weblog writing, Steve wrote: We’re not writing an account of our lives just as a record of our lives, we’re trying to say something about our lives, and that can’t be done if we stick only to ‘facts’: the facts that will […]