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Returning to Atlanta: First 48 Hours

By on September 28, 2016

This time, Going to Atlanta is Like Eating Change Breakfast.
Have you ever eaten Change Breakfast?
It’s When You Go to a Restaurant Because You Have to Eat And You Order Food Because That’s What You Do At Restaurants But You Aren’t Hungry At All And You Are Served a Full Course Meal…


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“Alaska, You’re the Best Kind of Breaking My Heart!”

By on September 28, 2016

I’m going to tell you something about Ketchikan that no one knows: the clouds are drippy faucets in clever marshmallow costumes.
A few years ago I fell in love with John Green. He writes Youth Fiction and The Fault in our Stars is his most popular book. It will always…


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Preparing to Go, How I Leave Ketchikan.

By on September 27, 2016

Guess what I learned?
You can’t be sad about leaving a place you love while you’re still there loving it.
Try as you might. That don’t make no sense.
My Last Day, Sunday September 18
I wrote out a long account of details: the whole goodbye.
I had to write it all out. I…

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Ketchikan, Alaska

All you have to do to sell all of your things and move across the world is to do it.