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Letter From the Desert: Masculinity
I have been thinking about what it means to be a man.
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Chris Clarke
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Letter From the Desert: Is Joshua Tree Over?
okay, this is long.
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Chris Clarke
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Letter From the Desert: Heart
She mostly wants to sleep these days.
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Chris Clarke
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Letter From the Desert: Canis latrans
Yesterday was tough.
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Chris Clarke
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Letter From the Desert: Processing Bad News
“How about some good news?
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Chris Clarke
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Letter from the Desert: F Your "F Your Feelings" Feelings
I went back and forth on whether to bowdlerize this title.
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Chris Clarke
Letter From the Desert: Cold Solace
Thanks for reading Letters From the Desert!
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Chris Clarke
Letter From the Desert: So, THAT happened
Before I get started: I told some folks who attended my presentation on Saturday at the 29 Palms Book Festival that I would compile a list of the…
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Chris Clarke
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Letter From the Desert: All About Jack
I realized recently that I never got around to making a formal introduction of our younger dog in this newsletter; I just started talking about some of…
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Chris Clarke
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Letter From the Desert: York Fire
The above is a dissatisfyingly blurry photo of the southern Ivanpah Valley.
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Chris Clarke
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Letter From the Desert: Year 1
Both 2023 and our household bout of Covid are receding into the distance far too slowly.
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Chris Clarke
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Letter From the Desert: On The Border
Long drives give one the opportunity to hear the same news over and over again repeated every hour or so, and so I entered Arizona the other day replete…
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Chris Clarke
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