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Continue reading →: An ‘outcome based’ action by CEOs to make Minnesota and its people wholeI’ve long been of the mind that my own soul is derived from within me, has been and continues to be written—and revised—on a daily basis, by my own hand and my own actions. Each of us is every day given an opportunity to write that soul story, which I…
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Continue reading →: A rising tide lifts all yachts
There are a lot of people doing good out there right now, but not who you’d expect. Look in the mirror and you might see one. The writing I’ve always most identified with has been writing that originates in and is guided by the heart, writing that feels like the…
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Continue reading →: Rotisserie coffins at CostcoRotisserie coffinFor some reason Costco takes only Visa For goods from a goat to six pizzas You can pay them in cash But who has such a stash For a coffin and 10 pounds of cheese, uhh I was at Costco the other day, and yes, they do have entire goats in the freezer.…
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Continue reading →: Not a good sign, but a signFirst, the most important part of this piece is at the end. Go there now. Second, last weekend at Powderhorn Park in Minneapolis, I attended the protest/memorial for Renee Good who was murdered by the United States government in Minneapolis. It was my third time protesting in my 48 years,…
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Continue reading →: Resolution
I am tired of being a striving person For whom I am never enough I want to be a person for whom Just me is good enough For happiness, I am told Is something to be pursuedBut nearing 50 years I ask Just who is chasing whom? And so in 2026 I think that I shall…
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Continue reading →: 2025: Year of the Adam?As 2026 rolls in, you will never be the you that you were before you left for wherever it was that you went. 2025 was not, overall, a terrible year for me, though I know that it has been for so many. One of the benefits of keeping a blog…
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Continue reading →: Thanksgiving dinner is a battle we cannot win, nor should we tryOn Monday night, Snap Fitness in Robbinsdale, Minnesota, was jammed full of people preparing to pig out over Thanksgiving. I was surprised when I walked in: attendance was about double what it normally is, something that must be due to holiday gorging preparation. I imagine this same scenario is playing…
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Continue reading →: Deliberate poetry
I’m not much of a poet, especially in that I let poems “come to me.” That happens about once per year. Lately I’ve begun to deliberately sit down to write poetry. These are the latest results. The second feels a little more like spoken word to me. Coffee relationship Every…
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Continue reading →: Four small poemsThe meaning of dogs Woe is meBut also, woe is you And woe is definitely that guy over therewho, while walking his dogdropped his cappuccino as Fido lunged at a passing cyclist a cappuccino the dog now seems ever so pleased to enjoy And so upon this observation and many othersit would…
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Continue reading →: False starts and writing hiccupsOn Oct. 8, I started my writing-every-day-for-365-days project, which has evolved into writing OR working on compiling and refining a book of old and new writings. So far I’ve done one and/or the other every day, but as for the writing, I’ve had a lot of false starts, where things…
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Continue reading →: Strangle the struggling artistTwenty-five years ago, I thought I wanted to be a photographer. I’d taken a photojournalism course in college and found I had a minor visual artistic side I wasn’t aware of. It was surprising, because, to be clear, that visual creativity was, and still is, strictly limited to photography. I…
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Continue reading →: Cooking in hellI like that in the fall evenings and winter anytimes you can bake and afterwards open the oven to let the hot air contribute to the warming of your home. And the rush of heat when you open the oven door can feel wonderful if you keep your distance and…
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Continue reading →: What can you doom?I’m not planning on working from warmer climes in the camper this winter for the first time since the winter of 2022*. Last night, that had me thinking about the winter that is soon to come, because my mind always turns first toward dwelling on doom. But doom-thinking sometimes leads…
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Continue reading →: Running full speed at lifeI’d always wanted to try writing a children’s book but came to realize that my ethics are questionable, and the odds are that any child reading my book would actually become less intelligent because of it. It seems like it could be a hard sell to, say, Scholastic publishing, that…
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Continue reading →: The chlorophyll will be destroyed (revisted)I’m in northern Minnesota (same place, nearly same time as last year) working from my little camper just yards from a tranquil lake amidst the aspens, pines of some kind (I can never remember which–the needley kind), and occasional maples showing bright oranges and reds. Along the North Shore of…
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Continue reading →: I Have Your Tupperware and it is Unlikely You Will Ever Get it BackTo the friends of my friends, who welcomed me to their French themed dinner* I want to thank you again graciously, as I did that evening when you and yours invited me to such an unforgettable soirée. The meal was marvelous, and there was so much of it — far too much to…
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Continue reading →: Side hustling with Rover, a kind of dating app for dogsA few months ago I signed up to be a dogsitter through an app called Rover. Since I work a desk job from home and take a walk each afternoon and evening, it’s a perfect scenario for me and a (very) lucky dog. The aptly named Rover is kind of…
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Continue reading →: Time and decreasing cellular divisionFor the longest time I had perfect eyesight—for more than 40 years, in fact, it was better than perfect. Throughout my life my vision has been regularly clocked at 20/15. So where “perfect” 20/20 vision means that a person can see what a person with normal eyesight should be able…
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Continue reading →: A poem and a public service announcement
Hello. It has been some time. I’m hoping to start writing again soon. I have been distracted, exhausted, and any number of other words that end in ted. There are thousands of these words. Two days ago a black-capped chickadee flew into a window over my back entryway and dropped…
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Continue reading →: The Disappointment Continuum: Finding Hope in Everyday LifeIt’s July 23 and I haven’t written for a month. All motivation, gone. Wallowing in the why bother. Life is nasty, brutish, and actually seemingly quite long at this point. And the world is a disaster, a disappointment. People are disappointing. They never seem to do what you want or…
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Continue reading →: It can be hard to leave the house
Where do you go for the positive things? Because it can be hard to leave your house, to go out into the world. Everywhere you’re confronted with, if not outright horror, then sadness, and defeat at the overwhelming scope of human challenges, of challenges to our humanity. It’s no better…
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Continue reading →: I attended my first protest ever*Published at Minnpost on June 23. Last weekend (June 14) I went to my first protest ever, the “No Kings” event at the St. Paul Capitol (Minnesota), where more than 20,000 gathered as part of nationwide protests. It took me 47 years to go to my first protest, a fitting…
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Hi. I’m Adam Overland, a writer based in Minneapolis. These are the meanderings of my muddled mind. I’ve written humor columns for various print publications, so naturally that’s dead and here I am, waiting for the last gasp.
