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Category Archives: Personal

Journaling, photos, letters home, and other little mementos to remember me by.

happy birthday, Boo!

by Rob Friesel

A year ago, A. woke up me up from this strange dream about guerrilla pizza marketing to tell me that “it was time to go”, and a couple hours later, Emery Stephen (“Boo”, to us) was born. That’s a picture A. took of him yesterday. 1 I’ve got one last picture to take of him […]

2013 Goals

by Rob Friesel

After six years, 1 I’m comfortable calling this a tradition: setting some personal goals (“not resolutions”) for the new year. Call me weird, but it makes me feel more comfortable going into the year–like having a map by which to steer. Looking back over the past couple of years, I’ve noticed that there are a […]

skin

by Rob Friesel

It’s funny, the tricks that words play with us sometimes. We listen closely to the words that people choose. The precise words. The connotations and implications. The order of the words. The split-second but pregnant pause between clauses that alters the statement’s meaning. Diction and inflection. Comedic careers are launched with this fuel; political careers […]