Inspiration & entertainment from Summer 2023

Annie Lalla, Haruki Murakami, M. Wylie Blanchet, Bernard Moitessier, Meghan Daum, Michael Meade, and more

Sep 6, 2023

Three books worth reading

📖 What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by novelist, runner, and former smoker and nightclub owner Haruki Murakami.

📖 The Curve of Time, M. Wylie Blanchet — a lyrical and authentic first-person account of cruising the islands of British Columbia in the early 1900’s

📖 The Long Way, Bernard Moitessier — which I’ll be profiling for

The Books That Made Us

sometime before long

A few other things

What Is Rock Bottom? by

Dee Rambeau

How huckleberries earned the nickname "purple gold" by

Joshua Doležal

I’m 45 years old and I made a new friend by

Lyle McKeany

Don’t Have Kids If You Don’t Want Them! from

Meghan Daum

The Living Myth podcast from Michael Meade is also outstanding.

My entire book-length memoir, serialized right here on Substack

Bowen Dwelle

December 1, 2022

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We'd all do well to "grow a spiritual pair"

Michael Mohr and Bowen Dwelle

Aug 26

We'd all do well to "grow a spiritual pair"

This conversation is part of a series of interviews with various brothers and teachers, including many fellow writers, all of which are part of the body of work surrounding my book-length memoir An Ordinary Disaster—one man's proof that we can all learn to listen to ourselves, and to act upon the inner voice of our self, our sanity and our soul.

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What To Do When You Don't Know What To Do

Aug 19

This is part of a series of tools and techniques that form my operational philosophy. This is not part of my book-length memoir AN ORDINARY DISASTER—but if you dig my writing you should be sure to check that out! Sometimes you just don’t know what to do

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No, It Is Not a Struggle to Find Good Male Role Models

Aug 12

I’m tired of people saying that there’s a “struggle to find male role models,” or that we’re somehow still stuck with just two ways of seeing men—either the over-macho post-war (and now highly disgruntled) “breadwinner,” or the under-sexed, unsexy, and largely undesired post-fe…

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