Down But Not Out
My son Jedd is the guest blogger today. He recently launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund Ember, an incredible night photography tool for the iPhone. Since many of my readers supported this effort, it seemed…
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Reading Books So You Don’t Have To!
Enjoyed several fun books in the first quarter of 2014, so I wanted to list them here. It’s a fairly short list for me — just 25 books. Quality over quantity, perhaps? My favorites (and…
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Grease Under My Fingernails
There was grease under my fingernails when I woke this morning. Not that I did much mechanical work, but a weekend cleaning the garage meant handling a lot of tools. Even after two showers and…
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So you think you’re a writer?
Four years ago I took a month-long sabbatical to consider where to invest future energies. Great friends offered advice, shared their ideas, and asked me tough questions. One of the questions often asked was, “Why not…
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Little Bob
I was a teenager working in the wrecking yard when I first heard somebody refer to “Little Bob.” He was a new employee, and though not really small he was shorter than another Bob who…
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Recycling Junkyard
It’s hard to believe Junkyard Wisdom has now been online for five years! Over 500 posts, 300 pages, too many comments to track, and tens of thousands of visitors …. wow, never expected all that….
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Ember
My son has always been a tinkerer. We still laugh about his childhood dream of wanting to build an airplane in our backyard. I pointed out we had no tires for the plane to land…
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The Bully Pulpit
Last year I wrote about my favorite books of the year and mentioned The Bully Pulpit by Doris Kearns Goodwin as the one most deserving of a Pulitzer Prize. At that time I had not…
