Dale Keiger

Essayist, photographer, walker, ciotóg. Creator of The Joggled Mind newsletter, which you can subscribe to at

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Elegy for a dear departed friend.

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[Dale Keiger @dkeiger1]

Words. Images. Zipped straight into your inbox free of charge. No postage required. From a writer once described by an English blogger as "the thinking woman's crumpet." Well, now.

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Yet I soldier on, scribble scribble scribble, and I do it all for you, faithful and beloved reader. I require no thanks. Though I do love Tim Hortons doughnuts. Just sayin'.

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Every year, this is a rough week for me. Tomorrow morning I will learn that, yet again, I have been passed over for a MacArthur Fellowship. Thursday morning I will learn that, yet again, I've been passed over for the Nobel in literature.

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I keep taking pictures of people I don't know while they're reading.

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Can't afford to shoot glaciers and polar bears every day.

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The curators of the 1x online gallery have listed my image "Art Lover" their awarded status; they say only 1 percent of submissions are so recognized. This is the fourth image of mine that they've selected, which plumps my feathers a bit.

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Strunk & White? Maybe not

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Rereading Asimov's Foundation novels for nostalgia. Rough going. I wrote better when I was 14. Which is about when I read them the first time.

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Wagner Group: A lot of pissed-off fighters with a shitload of guns who fight way better than the Russian army. This should be fun.

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Oh, come on, CNN, name one...

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I have disdained authority since I was 11. Yet every day I stand when my Apple watch tells me to. Weird.

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Made it through 13 minutes of the Republican "debate" before bailing out. What a collection of venal amoral craphounds. I bet none of them reads for pleasure.

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It's 6:59 am and I've had my first genuine laughoutloud.

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When the Diet Coke runs out…

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My latest piece for the fine people at Nieman Storyboard, a critical appreciation of @sallyjenkinswa1 superb feature on the Chris Evert - Martina Navratilova friendship: https://t.co/0GESL4oYWv

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@sallyjenkinswa1 Thank you, Sally. You are always a pleasure to read.

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Reconciling with age, enjoying the good stuff, but wondering: Is the skin on my neck actually growing?

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So thought he could improve on Dante? Guess...

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Yes, actually, I did know Jerry Springer.

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Remembering Mark Strand and thinking about writing yet another piece:

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