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Journal Roulette, May 2001: A Discarded Novel
In which I get a random notebook from my boxes of journals dating back to 1980 and transcribe an entry.
Feb 7
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January 2024
The Mortality Audit (or, My First Death)
Based on the early career of Dr Willy Liangco, author of Even Ducks Get Liver Cancer.
Jan 31
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Alone in Galicia: Last Days in La Coruña
I wonder when I will learn to feel one emotion without its exact opposite swirling around at the same time.
Jan 24
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Alone in Galicia: My anxieties and I go on a trip
I didn’t want to risk any of the worst case scenarios in my head (What if I took the wrong train/got out at the wrong station/forgot my bag, etc) I who…
Jan 17
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Alone in Galicia: Walking and Looking
That thing was happening again, where I was afraid that if I took another step I would disappear. I was on a wide path with a bicycle lane, but I…
Jan 10
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Alone in Galicia: Solitude is my default setting.
In Manila it takes a certain fortitude to insist on being alone, but this solitude must be calibrated carefully lest it lead to depression and drink…
Jan 3
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December 2023
Alone in Galicia: Maria Pita Versus The English
I heard two versions of the fabled heroine’s life. The first one says that when the 4,000 defenders of La Coruña faced the 23,000 English troops, her…
Dec 13, 2023
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Alone in Galicia: My Lunch With Mary Jo Bang
The food was great but the conversation was mind-blowing.
Dec 5, 2023
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November 2023
Alone in Galicia: Dinner With Poets
It cheers me up, seeing words as instruments of harmony and community rather than fear and hatred. In the current ugliness words have been perverted…
Nov 29, 2023
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Alone in Galicia, Week 2: Days of Invisibility
From the street the apartment looks like a balcony with a statue. Perhaps I can be seen as a shadow. Perhaps people think I am a ghost. Perhaps I am a…
Nov 22, 2023
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Alone in Galicia, Week 1
I took a break from talking to myself and spent a day in Santiago de Compostela.
Nov 15, 2023
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Alone in Galicia, Day 4
One month in a charming city with nothing to do but read and write. The catch: I had to feed myself, and I am a moron in the kitchen.
Nov 8, 2023
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