An Ordinary Disaster

An Ordinary Disaster

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Love as a place
a clutch of roses dropped in a Capp Street crosswalk
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Bowen Dwelle
Chapter 14 — A desperate move, a mistake, and a wreck that made everything worse.
An Ordinary Disaster — chapter 14 — How to Make an Actual Life Error
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Chapter 15 — Saved by a climbing gym, two real friends, kitesurfing, and a half-naked haircut.
An Ordinary Disaster — chapter 15 — Meeting the Mentor
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Let's open it up
Memoir only for the moment, done with previews, new interview format, and memoir on Substack
"Writing yourself into existence" with Lyle McKeany
Writing yourself into existence, how writing is like music, whether men can say “sex”, writing memoir as a man, what we're afraid to write about…
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Bowen Dwelle
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Lyle McKeany
Chapter 3 — Starting a business at the age of nine to sell D&D books
An Ordinary Disaster — chapter 03 — North Dallas Forty
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Chapter 17 — Learning that I didn't have to do it all myself
An Ordinary Disaster — chapter 17 — Joining Up
Who Holds You?
An Ordinary Disaster — chapter 26 — Who Holds You?
What I'm Reading, July–August 2022
John Wineland, Raymond Chandler, Lauren Hough, Rob Halford, Traver Boehm, Melissa Febos, Tabitha Lasley, and Dorothy Carrington
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Bowen Dwelle
Chapter 4 — LSD + Rocky Horror = ?
An Ordinary Disaster — chapter 04 — The Wall
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Appreciating the uniquely delicious feeling of the last time
Extreme sports, kitesurfing, wingfoiling, paragliding, intuition, fear, closing chapters consciously, and creating a relationship with death
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I'm here to be myself as much as possible—and the absolute truth can only be...nothing.
A conversation about meaning, identity, physicality, and purpose with Bowen Dwelle and Andy Johns
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Andy Johns
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Bowen Dwelle
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