Anthology

An Incomplete Index of Stories & Essays by Don Cue

Don Cue

4 min readNov 20, 2015

Note: To read chronologically, start at the bottom of this list.

Get Unstuck — Break It Down

We all get stuck sometimes. Here’s how to get moving again.

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Fear and Tornadoes in Middle America

In the Midwest, we’ve developed healthy fear of severe weather. But there are other fears that are not so well-founded…

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Who Are You, Anyway?

A Tale of Identity, Discovery & Adventure.

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Life is a Series of Choices

A lot of years ago (and frankly I don’t remember when, okay?) my wife Renee quipped,“Life is a Series of Choices.”

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She looked out the window at the road.

Is that what she really wanted? Or had she always just thought she did?

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Fill My Cracks With Gold

Kintsugi-the beauty in mending with gold

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Good for the Body, Good for the Soul*

Gumbo. Is there a word that more effectively brings forth the entire suite of sensations that is New Orleans? Sure…

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Happiness is Creation

Creating — Making something lovely or useful. That makes me happy. Yes, lets talk about that.

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Working From Home

I’d planned to go to the office today

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My 2017 Predictions? Hah!

My prognoscatorial muscles are so underdeveloped that I seldom know what I think until I see what I say — and even then…

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Untitled — December

Rumpled and wan, he arrives late to work

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Are We Our Stories?

I had a dream, I think (or perhaps a drug-induced hallucination.)

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Where to Start in Getting Your Damn Life in Order

A To-Do list for myself: (So the “your” in this context is “mine”. My life. Io solo, capiche ? )

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Happiness is... - Happiness Weekly

Why I'm happy right now. As of today at 11:20AM CST. Tomorrow may be different, YMMV, choose your own adventure, see if…

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Simon’s Obsession

What limits to love? (Fiction)

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But WHY Should We Go to the Moon?

Just because you announce a radical goal —it doesn’t mean we care.

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Why I Changed My Name

Hi people!

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My Mother’s Bread Bowl

Can a bowl bring back childhood memories?

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The Journey

Every year I take a journey, as I have always done.

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The Tribe that Walks as One

How collective experiences in music build strong students and leaders.

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Want to Make Some Time?

It’s exasperating. How many times have we heard this? “You just need to make the time…”

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On Personal Stories

Shawn, you are most assuredly not alone. ¶ For me, I believe the therapeutic and cathartic benefits of sharing…

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A Halloween Story

When I got home that night, I noticed the smiling jack-o-lantern in my front yard was crushed.

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I Dream of Writing Stardust

Stardust is a meta-song. It’s a song about a love song.

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John Wayne’s Five Instructions for Fighting Cancer

In writing Triskaidekaphobia, I did a quick Google search for quotes about courage.

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I’m not afraid so say the “C-word”

Seriously people? It’s just a word. An arrangement of letters that we assign phonetic sounds to. You can say it. I say…

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Why I Cook

(a response to Andrew Weil)

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Triskaidekaphobia — 13 Days Left

For someone to slice into my abdomen and extract the part of my body that’s trying to kill me.

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Making Something Real that Will Last

Like many people, my working day is spent organizing electrons. The thoughts, ideas and problems I help solve are all…

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After Life, What Comes Next?

Fiction, by Don Cue

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Things I can’t put on my resume (but still seem relevant):

Perhaps we should have an appendix to our resumes to describe all those valuable things that we don’t get to add to the…

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The Death of Summer

But that can’t be! Summer is too young to die! I’m not ready!

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Remember to Believe in the Person That Wears Your Shoes

I don’t think we can “believe in ourselves”, in spite of all the pop psychology and motivational literature imploring…

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How to Blow Away the Past

I’ve learned the secret to dumping all that baggage that we drag around every day and blasting it to oblivion. I…

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“One Day at a Time” Isn’t Good Enough

When I named this journal “Live This 1”, I wanted to underscore the essential criticality of living now— this one hour…

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Lost in Space

The left turn at Albuquerque didn’t work out as planned.

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I Give Away my Work Because I’m Selfish.

In response to @Litographs & @Doctorow

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Hugs Have No Side Effects

For Jeremy and Dylan, who still remember to hug.

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Kafka & the Axe

“A book must be an axe for the frozen sea inside of us.” -Franz Kafka, novelist (1883–1924)

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I Don’t Hate Mondays

Really, I don’t hate Mondays. Not anymore. I used to dread them. Here’s what changed…

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Learning to Talk About Your Cancer

Relearning an old lesson

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If Love Can Cure Cancer, I’ll be Okay.

Imagine…as the biopsy verdict is delivered, your doctor says, I think we can handle this, but we’ll need to talk with…

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Today, I am 20,000 days old.

Wow. There are a thousands of minutes and millions of seconds in all those days. (The precise math is left as an…

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Want to See it All?

Be aware that the full list of stories as managed on Medium includes responses and quips out of context. It’s awkward and may be a bit confusing.

Don Cue

I travel the world, seeing what looks and tastes good. I'm a designer, technologist, baker, cyclist, builder, writer …

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