I'm back in Nieman Storyboard. Always great to work with editor Jacqui Banaszynski. Jacqui Banaszynski niemanstoryboard.org/stories/longfo…

Remembering Mark Strand and thinking about writing yet another piece: dalekeiger.net/the-sound-of-o…

Yes, actually, I did know Jerry Springer. dalekeiger.net/jerryspringer/

So thought he could improve on Dante? Guess... If you'd like more such cultural arrogance, subscribe to The Joggled Mind. Free, easy, and more fun than flossing. dalekeiger.net/untitled-2/

Reconciling with age, enjoying the good stuff, but wondering: Is the skin on my neck actually growing? dalekeiger.net/so-maybe-i-won…

My latest piece for the fine people at Nieman Storyboard, a critical appreciation of @sallyjenkinswa1 superb feature on the Chris Evert - Martina Navratilova friendship: niemanstoryboard.org/stories/sally-…

It's 6:59 am and I've had my first genuine laughoutloud.

Made it through 13 minutes of the Republican "debate" before bailing out. What a collection of venal amoral craphounds. I bet none of them reads for pleasure.

I have disdained authority since I was 11. Yet every day I stand when my Apple watch tells me to. Weird.

Oh, come on, CNN, name one...

Wagner Group: A lot of pissed-off fighters with a shitload of guns who fight way better than the Russian army. This should be fun.

Rereading Asimov's Foundation novels for nostalgia. Rough going. I wrote better when I was 14. Which is about when I read them the first time.

Strunk & White? Maybe not dalekeiger.net/when-youre-don…

The curators of the 1x online gallery have listed my image "Art Lover" their awarded status; they say only 1 percent of submissions are so recognized. This is the fourth image of mine that they've selected, which plumps my feathers a bit. url4449.1x.com/ls/click?upn=f…

Can't afford to shoot glaciers and polar bears every day. dalekeiger.net/introverted-so…

I keep taking pictures of people I don't know while they're reading. dalekeiger.net/reading-in-pub…

Every year, this is a rough week for me. Tomorrow morning I will learn that, yet again, I have been passed over for a MacArthur Fellowship. Thursday morning I will learn that, yet again, I've been passed over for the Nobel in literature. ½

Yet I soldier on, scribble scribble scribble, and I do it all for you, faithful and beloved reader. I require no thanks. Though I do love Tim Hortons doughnuts. Just sayin'. 2/2

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Elegy for a dear departed friend. dalekeiger.net/elegy-for-a-fr…