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Joel Dueck

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Construction and remodeling. Accounting. IT guy for mid-size businesses. Too many careers for someone still in his mid-thirties. I go for walks when I can, and write when hallucinating or discontent. Blog at http://thelocalyarn.com.

783 words in 9 moments in 3 cities since November 18th, 2013

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Winter

Tucking in the snow at the edge of the driveway

Robbinsdale — The local name for it is “Space Management” — the ritual clearing of snow, not just to the degree needed for unimpeded movement, but obsessively cleaning out snow all the way to the exact edge of the...

Today's office

Numb-ers, the antithesis of creativity

Minneapolis — “The rain continued. It was a hard rain, a perpetual rain, a sweating and steaming rain; it was a mizzle, a downpour, a fountain, a whipping at the eyes, an undertow at the ankles; it was a rain to...

Walking home from work at 6:20 on a weeknight.

Robbinsdale — Even with swarms of cars moving into and out of the block like locusts, there are slices of time inside which you could imagine you were in a small town, in the middle of nowhere, at midnight.

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