Ed Grisamore

Things I’ve gotta do today:
Get up at 5:22 a.m. and go for my morning walk 2.34 miles around the neighborhood at 6:17 a.m.
Kiss the wife.
Coffee.
Step over the dogs in the kitchen while cooking breakfast.
Put my writing shoes on.
Be a friend to my fellow man.
Learn how to hit a curve ball.
Practice my doubletalk.
Fall into a book.
‘Mater [...]

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On most mornings, I get to the office early. I get a good parking spot. I usually am the first to arrive in the newsroom, so I turn on the lights. (I refuse to make the coffee, though.)
I’ve grown accustomed to homeless people walking past our building. They come up from the river, or from [...]

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There is a man in our building who arrives at work every morning at about the same time. I know when he gets there before I ever see him.
No, I don’t watch out my office window for him to pull into the parking lot. (I don’t even know what kind of car he drives.)
But I [...]

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