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Age of Empathy

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Failure to Launch my Career

My first year in advertising is not a great story — It was July 2012 and I was 29 years old. I just finished a year at an advertising school in downtown Minneapolis called Miami Ad School and knew what I wanted to do—think, concept, write, create, and make work with like-minded people.

Life

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Failure to Launch my Career
Failure to Launch my Career
Life

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The Memoirist

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Nobody is Ever Going to Ask Me to Be On Their Podcast

So I wrote the musical timeline of my life (from 1982–2001). — My friend, Rachel, recently told me she was on a podcast to talk about the six–10 songs that would define, or narrate (or whatever) her life. …

Music

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Nobody is Ever Going to Ask Me to Be On Their Podcast
Nobody is Ever Going to Ask Me to Be On Their Podcast
Music

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Age of Empathy

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How People Change

It doesn’t happen in 30 minutes or less. This is not pizza delivery. — Exercise has been a reoccurring inconvenience of mine for about 23 years. My tepid relationship with fitness began in high school when lifting was a required part of Phys. Ed. and football. As I entered my 20s, I’d take up some sweaty, grunty, or bendy activity to impress (or appease)…

Growing Up

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How People Change
How People Change
Growing Up

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The Memoirist

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The Old Wooden Shelf

My great-grandparents were resourceful. Most people who survived the Great Depression were, or so I’ve been told. — Not a nail, scrap of material, or cherry tomato went to waste in their home. They had a garden in the backyard that yielded a good amount of their food each year and a cellar in the basement to house all sorts of pickled foodstuff that went from the garden…

Furniture

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The Old Wooden Shelf
The Old Wooden Shelf
Furniture

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The Haven

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If Donald Trump Were Manager at Super America

Trump’s never had a real job, but most of us have. And, all of us would be canned, shunned and jailed if we did Trumpy things at work. Take the Capitol riot, for instance. If I laid the groundwork and incited that shit I’d be sharing a cell today with…

America

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If Donald Trump Were a Manager at Super America
If Donald Trump Were a Manager at Super America
America

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Age of Empathy

·Jul 14

The Paper Boy Years

One lad’s erect (not really though) pursuit of donut cash. — From the age of 12 through my Junior year of high school, I delivered between 40–45 copies of the La Crosse Tribune on my paper route. I inherited said route from a neighbor named Sarah. I was watching WWF wrestling (probably Monday Night Raw while Heartbreak Kid Shawn Michaels was…

Youth

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The Paper Boy Years
The Paper Boy Years
Youth

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Jul 13

E-40’s Music Trivia (2023 edition)

There are no wrong guesses. — The week before Memorial Day, for the past five years, I’ve canoed my way into the Boundary Waters with a group of friends. This year I thought it would be fun to come up with a bunch of music trivia. So I did. I read the following to my pals…

Trivia

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E-40’s Music Trivia (2023 edition)
E-40’s Music Trivia (2023 edition)
Trivia

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The Haven

·Jun 28

I’m writing a book.

Maybe you’ve heard. I’m writing a book. — “So great to see you. Hope you don’t mind this coffee shop. They haven’t painted in here, or mopped the floors, since Carter was in office.” “Not at all. It feels like a place Sylvia Plath would have written in, or about! Have I told you—I’m writing a book.” “Yeah…

Writers Life

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I’m writing a book.
I’m writing a book.
Writers Life

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Jun 27

2023 Boundary Waters Trip Recap + Trivia

Alright! Let’s go. — 1. Before it was a band name, Steely Dan was what in the William S. Burroughs 1959 novel, Naked Lunch? (answers are provided at the end) Welcome to the 4th annual roasting of Jake Torgerson! Not this year, Jake. Concerning another oft-roasted fellow — Nate Goltz has been exonerated from…

Boundary Waters

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2023 Boundary Waters Trip Recap + Trivia
2023 Boundary Waters Trip Recap + Trivia
Boundary Waters

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Age of Empathy

·Jun 27

The Unbearable Lightness of Winning

And the sweat-soaked weight of defeat. — “Mike! Who won that rod?” I said. He hollered, “You did!” Time stopped and I stood in disbelief, levitating. That’s what happened on the corner of 42nd and 28th in Minneapolis on Sunday, Father’s Day morning, 2023 at around 10.

Fishing

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The Unbearable Lightness of Winning
The Unbearable Lightness of Winning
Fishing

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Eric Forseth

Eric Forseth

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I like writing so I write. I dabble in humor, fiction, short stories, observations and things I’ve learned.

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