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the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Toronto, 2014.10.05

"I'm glad I didn't trust you," my wife said as I walked through the door. At issue: how far from home I'd led the kids on an energy-burning outing. I'd told her we were about a kilometer away, in reality we'd only managed to get a few doors away. She was trying to time the meal, I'd been trying to sound like I'd made an effort to get the kids to actually expend some energy.

rand()m quote

Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.

—Bellamy Brooks