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Mark W. Tiedemann

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Writer, reader, amalgam of odd alloys and relevant irrelevancies. Author of Granger's Crossing, The Secantis Sequence, Gravity Box and Other Spaces, and various other things. www.marktiedemann.com

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Morning Music: No Resemblance Whatsoever, Dan Fogelberg & Tim Weisberg, 1995

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Morning Music: Fictionary, Lyle Mays, 1993

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Recently Photographed As an addendum to the previous post, some photographs from our recent sojourn.

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Morning Music: The Koln Concert, Keith Jarrett, 1975

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On the Road, After Long Delay On October 7th we got in the car and drove out of St. Louis, east, to Highway 50, on the first long road trip we’d taken in years. My partner retired in June and one of the things she had bee…

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Morning Music: Can Atilla, Berlin High School Legacy, 2018

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The Journey of _Compass Reach_: My First Published Novel Discover the journey behind 'Compass Reach', my first original novel exploring interstellar travel, economics, and the lives of the disenfranchised.

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Available now (and the holidays are coming up)

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Home Again Back from the first long vacation we have taken in some time. Years. Day jobs and other issues kept us close to home, so we rarely made it much past 8 days. Those were nice, but we’ve been ye…

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Morning Music: Glis Glis, John Christian, 2021

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Morning Music: Sessions V, Tangerine Dream, 2019

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Papers, Please Something that seems to get overlooked in all this sturm und drang over immigration is the visceral reaction those of us who oppose current policy experience over seemingly innocuous terms. β€œβ€¦

Something from the first go-round with this nonsense.

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Weak-minded people tend to want to dismiss, fire, get rid of competent, bright people because they can't stand being told "no" and "you're wrong." They don't understand that getting it right is more important than being right (especially when you're not).

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Morning Music: Sessions III, Tangerine Dream, 2020

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Morning Music: Dark With Excessive Bright, Missy Mazzoli & Peter Herresthal, 2023

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Reading With Intent Stress acts capriciously on our inner landscapes. What seems easy, comfortable to do, in times we consider normal becomes fraught in times of tension. Daily burdens can take on new weight, contours…

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Morning Music: The Sessions 1, Tangerine Dream, 2027

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Haven't done this in a while. | Mark W. Tiedemann Haven't done this in a while..

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Halloween Decor is all well and good, but this seems a bit much:

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Finding Meaning in Fiction: A Quest Amidst Chaos Explore the challenges of writing amidst chaos and the quest for truth in fiction. Discover how expression can rescue meaning in uncertain times.

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Morning Music: Minor Details, Jan Akkerman, 2011

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Imperial Theology I made an off-hand reply last week on FaceBook to a question that has become so common as to almost be meaningless. How can so many people who claim to be christian follow an exemplar who is the ex…

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Morning Music: Life Love Flesh Blood, Imelda May, 2017

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The Madman In The Auditorium I like Barney Frank.Β  He says what he feels, usually in a way that makes his argument better.Β  But it’s almost a no-brainer to do a comeback on the idiocy with which he was faced in Dartmouth…

Old post which I now read and find...ironic in its innocence.

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