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Dispatches and Marginalia from Michael DeVault

I’m a Buddhist. (A really, really bad Buddhist, but Buddhist nonetheless.) I’ve never observed Lent, but as a really bad Buddhist, the concept of

Or: A workaholic’s guide to avoiding going to meetings For Dee Wallace* I have a working theory: Workaholics Anonymous doesn’t exist because you

Or: How I learned to stop looking to live with reusable project pieces For a time, my daughter issued an edict: I could no longer say

Or: Fetish and the Art of Writing I remember reading, where I don’t know, that Hemingway used pencils to write in his notebooks. It must

An Allegory So this farmer has a section of low-lying land that is perpetually flooded with water, land that came as part of his family’s

By almost any measure, 2013 has been a remarkable year for me. Looking back, it’s hard not to pick the image at right as

(AUTHOR’S NOTE: This started out as a note to all my Christian friends. But the message is something bigger and I think it bears

I’m not a grammar Nazi. I don’t wander around with a copy of Strunk & White‘s Elements of Style in my satchel, waiting to pounce