Casting Off

Friday, April 25, 2008

Sleeping in a lion's den


Secret at anchor on Crooked Island




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  • Flickr
  • Appalachian Trail thru-hike journal, 2004
  • Pacific Crest Trail thru-hike journal, 2005
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  • Art blog of the Greater Chicago Church, 2010-11
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  • Through Desert, 2009
  • Linguistics blog about life among sea nomads in Thailand from Peter Jenks, 2007
  • Late lemented Bob Dylan and mothering MySpace blog, which I will not remove from this list, in the hopes that it may someday reappear
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  • Larry and Lin Pardey (idols)

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