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Jul 23

Traveling In the Time of Zillow

A cursed blessing of having traveled far, of living in a lot of different places in one life, is that it makes you believe you can live anywhere. Add the possibility of remote work and you end up checking local listings on Zillow everywhere you go. We used to go…

Parenting

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Traveling In the Time of Zillow
Traveling In the Time of Zillow
Parenting

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Jul 14

Need Rejection Therapy? Hang Out With a 2-Year-Old

I’ve started asking friends if they want to read a novel manuscript I’ve been working on for the past five years. Set in Denver in 2019, about two friends running a cannabis company. I’m only asking other writers if they want to read it and give me feedback. It makes…

Writing

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Need Rejection Therapy? Hang Out With a 2-Year-Old
Need Rejection Therapy? Hang Out With a 2-Year-Old
Writing

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Jul 7

Going Home, Thinking About Fatherhood

I don’t know my philosophy on how to be a good dad yet, I’m just trying to be here for her — A tornado destroyed a home east of the John Deere dealer a few miles from our family farm a couple of weeks ago. Poor people. The house looked like it’d been cut open lengthwise from the top then split apart and dissected by unseen hands. You could see the pink…

Fatherhood

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Going Home, Thinking About Fatherhood
Going Home, Thinking About Fatherhood
Fatherhood

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Jun 30

Community, Jason Isbell, and Crying in H Mart

It’s been two years since we moved to this house. Two years and two months since we had our daughter. Two years ago, on the first weekend we lived here we looked down the street and saw a tornado. Black and writhing on the horizon 15 miles away. …

Colorado

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Community, Jason Isbell, and Crying in H Mart
Community, Jason Isbell, and Crying in H Mart
Colorado

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Jun 10

Scarred Beauty

The year that led up to this trip had been one of loneliness and poor decision-making and self-loathing. — I tied the laces of my running shoes and knotted the drawstring on my gym shorts. Helga handed me a lit spliff and said zis vill help. She sat cross-legged on a steel porch chair, dirty blonde dreadlocks spread over her shoulders. I took a little puff and she smiled…

Fiction

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Scarred Beauty
Scarred Beauty
Fiction

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Feb 21

Not Changing Is Way Worse

The only constant in life. Harder as we get older. However you want to deploy the cliché, major life change can be one of the most anxiety-inducing events in our lives. If you’re anything like me, you pride yourself in your ability to recognize the potential for anxiety and stress…

Journalism

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Not Changing Is Way Worse
Not Changing Is Way Worse
Journalism

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Jun 26, 2022

Dispatches from Midlife (4): Father’s Day

Jia wakes up early, before 7, crying more than usual because she’s teething. Her first top tooth is coming in, a tic tac erupting through her gums. I try to remember how that feels, sore and itchy. Nothing to be done but ice and time. When I go into her…

Essay

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Dispatches from Midlife (4): Father’s Day
Dispatches from Midlife (4): Father’s Day
Essay

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Jun 17, 2022

Dispatches from Midlife: (3) Betting it All

Even at my age, 42, I still have a lot of close friends who don’t have families, who never married, or who tried it and it didn’t work for them. They live on beaches, in foreign countries, with all the flexibility and freedom one man could have. They have all…

Essay Writing

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Dispatches from Midlife: (3) Betting it All
Dispatches from Midlife: (3) Betting it All
Essay Writing

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Jun 13, 2022

Dispatches from Midlife: (2) Gate closing panic

Via Tim Urban There’s a German word for the feeling that more doors of opportunity close as we age — torschlusspanik — which the internet tells me is literally translated to “gate closing panic.” That’s what midlife feels like a lot of the time. The gates are coming down and…

Midlife

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Dispatches from Midlife: (2) Gate closing panic
Dispatches from Midlife: (2) Gate closing panic
Midlife

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Jun 6, 2022

Dispatches From Midlife: (1) Where I’m Calling From

The first weekend we lived here — exactly one year ago this week — a tornado touched down about 15 miles south of town. We could see it clearly over the short corn in the field at the end of the street. Black. Twisting, biting at the land near the…

Colorado

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Dispatches from midlife: (1) Where I’m calling from
Dispatches from midlife: (1) Where I’m calling from
Colorado

5 min read

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Bart Schaneman

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Writer. American West. Author of The Silence is the Noise. https://bartschaneman.com/

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