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You Could Not Find Papa In The Garden? Ah Ba! - But He Has Grown Worryingly Small These Days
I daren’t tell them that Papa now drinks his morning coffee from an acorn!
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Daniel Lavery
Finishing My Novel and Submitting My Application To Become A Wealthy Peasant In An Old Painting
Please enjoy this unlocked post from November 2022 while I contend with some light carpal tunnel syndrome and finish my novel this week! My hands hurt…
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“If you are a bird, odds are that you are a chicken”: Jacques Pépin, Mimi's Café, and American Ideas About French Food
I think of Jacques Pépin as having an ideal relationship to attention: repetition and relaxation are united in him, the result is expertise, and his…
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The Problem With Being Edited
My formal education ended in total collapse and defeat, almost entirely through my own failure of nerve. I was the sort of child who hated being asked…
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Interlude: The Problem With The Boxcar Children Is They Never Got To Spend Enough Time In The Boxcar
The end of any childhood is a bit like the French Revolution; things that mattered a great deal at eight years old seem in retrospect like having been…
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The Problem With Waking Up Later Than Everybody Else
One of the worst things I can imagine happening to me is waking up later than everybody else and emerging from my bedroom to find the rest of the party…
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August 2023
But Why Didn't Hannibal Ever Conquer Rome?
"He spent nearly two decades successfully besieging the Italian peninsula. His victory at Cannae caused the greatest single military loss in Roman…
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What I'm Working On and The Book of Envy
Regular readers of the Chatner may recall I spent July in Massachusetts as part of my first writer’s residency at Mastheads. I am right in the middle of…
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Commissions That Patrons of Early Netherlandish Art Never Asked For
I know some of these are actually Dutch Golden Age; sorry
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A Day in the Life of a Druid, Based Solely On Reliably Verifiable Written or Archaeological Evidence
7:15-7:45AM: Religious duties7:45-8:00AM: Organize worship, divination, auguries, sacrifices, etc8:00-8:30AM: Possibly wren?8:30-9:00AM: Memorize lore
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Three Ways Of Touching The Earth
“In the deep discovery of the Subterranean world, a shallow part would satisfie some enquirers…The treasures of time lie high, in Urnes, Coynes, and…
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The Problem With Blurbs, Or My Problem With Blurbs, Or A Problem With Blurbs I Often Have
Where Problem Is Inclusive But Not Exhaustive
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