It’s 1:45 a.m. on New Year’s day and it seems that I can’ t come up with anything better to do than to crank out yet another blog post. Christ! This is pathetic even by my standards. But what the hell, I’m here to celebrate. Not the ringing in of the new year (I didn’t even notice the clock […]
This morning my mind headed off in directions all its own (as it often does) while I was merely along for the ride. At some point the thought that typewriters are the perfect instruments to reveal the soundtrack to our souls began to click with me. I like this thought if I’m being honest. But then I
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For reasons unknown to me, I have been experiencing some incredibly detailed, vivid, and downright bizarre dreams as of late. Perhaps even more remarkable is that I have been able to remember these dreams in their entirety. While I have long been able to retain the overall gist of many of my dreams, the details are
A quick post today (by my standards at least) to let my Canadian correspondents know that I am thinking of them. Though I might have been guilty of such things in my youth, these days I try not to take the mail service that I receive for granted. I am aware that as someone who still enjoys
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I was seriously hooked on fly fishing (pun intended) for steelhead at one point in my life. It all happened very quickly. I originally began fly fishing for trout using a rod like the type that most people picture in their minds when they think of fly-fishing. But within a year a coworker of mine had
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I have been catching up with some of the videos that my friend Joe Van Cleave makes and posts to his YouTube channel. I see that Joe is once again the owner of one of the big Olympias, a SG1 model this time around. I am hoping that the SG1 works out well for Joe
It feels like it has been a month of Sundays since I last posted to this blog and I’m guessing that’s not too far off the mark. While I haven’t been writing about typewriters here on The Typewritemosphere, I have been using my own machines quite a bit. I’ve even spent a bit of time working on
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Over on his YouTube channel, my friend Joe Van Cleave was just recently pondering whether or not a typewriter revival is taking place. Joe was comparing the rise in interest that typewriters have been experiencing with the rise in interest that film photography has been enjoying. Joe pointed out that film photographers now have multiple options when
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For some time now I have been thinking about writing a post as to why I have never succumbed to the temptation of electric typewriters. (A big part of the answer lies in the fact that I have never experienced a strong temptation when it comes to electrics.) However, a recent conversation with a fellow
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2023 has been the most difficult year of my life by far. Earlier this year my marriage of nearly 30 years came crashing to an end. In the process I lost my most valued friendship of all. Then when I thought that things could hardly get any worse, just last week I lost my mom.
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