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Potlatch?
Probably Not...
May 20
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Gary Allen
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Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin
“Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.” Søren Kierkegaard
May 5
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Gary Allen
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April 2026
It Ain't Me, Babe...
There’s an apocryphal story about a reporter who was alleged to have asked Willie Sutton why he robbed banks.
Apr 30
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Gary Allen
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On Writing and Publishing: A Walk in the Woods
I know I’ve mentioned this, before (one of the drawbacks, for you, of listening to old-timers, like me, is that we tend to tell the same stories, again…
Apr 28
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Gary Allen
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A Criminal Concord
Henry David and Ralph Waldo had known each other since they’d shared a classroom in The Walden preschool.
Apr 25
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Gary Allen
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On Reading in Public
I’ve had the opportunity to read before audiences—sometimes alone, sometimes in the company of other food writers.
Apr 21
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Gary Allen
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Bibliomania, a Moving Problem
A little more than a quarter-century ago, when we lived in a different place, I wrote a description of our book situation at the time.
Apr 5
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Gary Allen
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As If By Design...
You know that old maxim (“a lawyer who represents himself has a fool for a client”)?
Apr 2
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Gary Allen
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March 2026
Lamarck My Words...
Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, chevalier de Lamarck (1744–1829) was a pioneer in the science of evolution—long before Darwin and Wallace had…
Mar 29
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Gary Allen
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Youthful Excesses
Do you remember that old biological saw, first proposed by Ernst Haeckel in 1866: “Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny”?
Mar 22
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Gary Allen
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Loss, in Translation
Wer, wenn ich schriee, hörte mich denn aus der Engel Ordnugen?
Mar 21
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Gary Allen
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WIPing a Book into Shape
I suspect that most writers—at least writers with better working habits—try to stay focused on one book at a time.
Mar 14
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Gary Allen
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