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Sep 16, 2018
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Visiting Robin Metz

I’ve recently returned from visiting Robin Metz who has been my wise man since I met him nearly 50 years ago and because he was that immediately for me, a man of many wisdoms, I have often overlooked that Robin also happens to be the coolest dude ever; since it’s easier to illustrate the latter, get this: Robin Metz played football while earning his undergraduate degree at Princeton then returned home to work in the Pittsburgh steel mills for the summer before he headed to Iowa to earn his MFA at the Iowa Writer’s Workshop then came to teach at Knox College at age 25 in 1967 where he led the creation of one of the most respected undergrad Creative...

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Jan 19, 2016
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Chapter 1 of Worlds Between

Especially for those of you who read the first book, 'The 53rd Parallel.' I hope you enjoy it. Chapter 1: A child is born This Man stood on the alert outside the door of the large wigwam, his flintlock primed and at the ready; he had tied a sprig of cedar together with a hawk feather near the muzzle of the barrel of his gun. The people of the village and their visitors were gathering around the wigwam and two of the men carried rifles; Brian Burke had his recently purchased Marlin 336 and Albert Loon carried the old Winchester that had been in his clan for as long as he could remember; both rifles were lever-action, both 30-30’s. From inside the wigwam...

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Jun 03, 2014
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Excited and a bit nervous

During my entrepreneurial decades I made well over 100 investor pitches and raised millions of dollars for a big handful of start-ups. I was always excited, but never nervous. I have taught classes at Duke for 12 years, with over 2,000 students, helping them become the most creative and entrepreneurial versions of themselves they can be, and the success of that work has taken me to dozens of other schools and countless speaking gigs including a couple of TEDx's and conference keynotes. In anticipation I was always excited, am always excited, but never nervous. I was just invited to be a guest on 'The State of Things', on WUNC, on Thursday the 5th, to talk about The...

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May 17, 2014
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Anung and Brita Wolf

The ancient Ojibway legend about Anung was told to me by Steve Fobister. He asked me to popularize it, and this summer Light Messages will be publishing a novella about Anung's Great Adventures that I wrote hoping to fulfill Steve's request. It is a magical story, one that would certainly benefit from illustrations, and Elizabeth Turnbull, the book's editor, hired Brita Wolf, my daughter, for the task. Brita is a very talented artisan and designer and for the past few years has been amazing us with her paper cuttings. She has prepared ten of them for Anung, each one so wonderfully graceful and pure, and I thought you'd appreciate the sort of magic her images will bring to the story.  Creative...

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I want to thank all the folks who have been so important to my writing. My wife, Marie, and my three daughters, Sarah Rose, Brita, and Krista Anne. Steve Fobister. Elizabeth Turnbull. Robin Metz. Kevin Qian. And my father, Loran Nordgren.

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