Author Archives: Ron Giesecke

Dear Mountain Dew: Would YOU PLEASE–make up your mind?

We’ve all got our own calibrating benchmarks. You know the ones that literally gives the final clarion call–the ones where we just KNOW God’s gonna finally pull the rip-cord on the Great Anthropological Freak Show down here. Even I thought … Continue reading

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No really. I’m still here. I’m just here in Portuguese

I could try to take you down every single emotional, situational and logistical rabbit-hole that’s slightly derailed my writing, but I won’t. Here’s the problem with being me: Me. In fact, I named the blog something that was a subtle … Continue reading

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At the Crossroads of common literary decency with Acoustic Guitar Magazine

There is a common literary technique accompanied by a lesser-known phrase, known as the In medias res—a latin phrase for “in the middle of things.” The tactic is used to suck a reader in to the main vortex of a … Continue reading

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Wow, am I easily derailed

It seems only like yesterday, I was pontificating, ruminating, cogitating, deliberating and prevaricating about wanting to write my book–complete with the breathless declaration that I had completed the first chapter. Then, I went to McCloud on a church.family camp thingamabob.  I … Continue reading

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This just happened

  Let him that readeth understand. 

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Oficina G3, Petra, and getting viewed 30,000 times

In case the backstory here is a bit muddy, let me give you a bit of my history. When I was a teenager, growing up in a church, and a Christian school, this was my favorite record: Not of This … Continue reading

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VLOG: Quality fly fishing

I just didn’t have much in me in terms of adventurous overtones.  So it comes down to this sad video blog. It’s hot here,and the trout are weird.  Which is a subtle way of saying “aint playin’.” Anyway . . … Continue reading

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VLOG: Apparently, Oficina G3 makes me run into other people’s cabins

If you’ve been here reading my veritable assaults against normalcy, you would well know my fascination–YEAH EVEN A FANSHIP of–the band Oficina G3.  But, for all points and purposes here, NONE of that matters.  All you need to know is–they … Continue reading

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VLOG: Bluesin’ by the railhead

So I realize the explanatory side of this is weak.  But these trains are part of my history–I wish they were running.  But they are no longer . . .

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Blues by the tracks 

Beautiful morning.

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