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The Better Cheddar: Ode to Kansas City
Oh, the Better Cheddar, Where would I be without you? Words fail me: “world’s best collection of cheeses, chocolates, charcuterie, and condiments” or “a true American gem, ode to the celebration of good food, good times, good company.”
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Where Are You Going? An Interview with Quo Vadis: On Journaling, Travel, and Memoir.
On the art of journaling, note taking, and recording the world around you. These are my favorite notebooks for daily musings and painting.
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Sketching Sites: Aqaba, Jordan from the Art of Exploration.
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In the Spring. Sun Blazing, the Red Sea, still, cool with Spring. I sit over Cafe Salaam, coffee, freshly roasted with cardamom and a handful of roasted nuts, wedged between an abundance of potted sage and a crumbling banister. This is where I sketched one of my favorite pieces of art. just on the Red…
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One: I Could Kill Myself | Two: I Could Go To Africa –scene from The Outsider, A Novel.
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*unedited from rough draft (The Outsider: A Novel) I woke up one morning in a state of complete despair and found myself debating the absurdity of carrying on like this when I had options. They were clear as day and night and manifest out of who-knows-where: One, I could kill myself. Two, I could go…
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“It’s like walking through a dream: where everything glows a soft infusion of yellow-gold and the lightness of being is simply enough.” -excerpt from an old interview on the emotions, sensations of traveling North Africa (Image. Morocco)
Nicholas Andriani Rankin, the Wandering Scholar 