May 2012 - Dallin Malmgren

28 May
2012
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By Dallin Malmgren
Rosemary in bloom.

Mowing the lawn.…

Just did it this morn­ing.  It’s a menial task, but someone’s got to do it.  It takes around 45 min­utes at my new house.  It used to take about two hours for my acre in Cibo­lo, and that was with a rid­ing mow­er.  That was a god-awful job, with dust and rocks and weeds and […]

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13 May
2012
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By Dallin Malmgren
Ascia holding up anatomically correct salt-n-pepper shakers.

Ascia … my dear mom

 (The fol­low­ing is actu­al­ly a chap­ter from my nev­er-end­ing, self-per­pet­u­at­ing auto­bi­og­ra­phy called My Forty Pages–way more than that and still grow­ing.  I hope to put it up on my web­site some­day.) As dis­tant and estranged as I felt from my father grow­ing up, so I seemed attached and con­nect­ed to my moth­er.  Not in a […]

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