Suzhou Snippets
Suzhou Snippets — an essay from Toby’s on-site writing archive, written before new work moved to Substack.
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Essays & Travelogue
New writing lives on Substack — essays, notes, and the conversations I’m having now. This page is the Vagabondess Blog Archive: articles published August 2012 through March 2024.
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Waiting For The Invisible, Part III
Continue Reading: Waiting For The Invisible, Part IIIWaiting For The Invisible, Part III — an essay from Toby’s on-site writing archive, written before new work moved to Substack.
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I Went on a Vision Quest and All I Brought Back Was…
Continue Reading: I Went on a Vision Quest and All I Brought Back Was…At exactly 3:00pm today, I passed the “Town of Middlebury” sign on Route 7.I’m back.Though it will be days, weeks, or perhaps months before I begin to understand the last ten days, I wanted to share with you my first impressions.
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Why I am Doing a Vision Quest
Continue Reading: Why I am Doing a Vision QuestWhy I am Doing a Vision Quest — an essay from Toby’s on-site writing archive, written before new work moved to Substack.
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We’re Running Low on Unicorns
Continue Reading: We’re Running Low on UnicornsWe’re Running Low on Unicorns — an essay from Toby’s on-site writing archive, written before new work moved to Substack.
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Servers Love When You Do These Things (Just Kidding. Never Do Any Of It!)
Continue Reading: Servers Love When You Do These Things (Just Kidding. Never Do Any Of It!)After a few years working as a server, sometimes part-time, sometimes full-time, always questioning my sanity, I think it is time to let you all in on a few trade secrets. Servers really hate when you do these things:Hide your credit inside the checkbook.
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A Vagabond’s Manifesto
Continue Reading: A Vagabond’s ManifestoIt has been responsible for so many of my experiences—too real to ignore—creating connections where I expected none, and repeatedly linking past interactions to present ones. I recently picked up Milan Kundera’s “The Unbearable Lightness of Being,” and he believes in coincidences too.
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Animals Who Think They Are People
Continue Reading: Animals Who Think They Are PeopleI can’t believe I never got around to posting these. I spent a good chunk of my 2012-2013 travels photographing animals who seemed to really believe they were people.
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An Ode to Small Towns
Continue Reading: An Ode to Small TownsYour customers for lunch show up at your other restaurant for dinner.2. You run into your “regulars” all over town. Going grocery shopping consists of 2 parts socializing and 1 part buying food.4.
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And How Is Your Family?
Continue Reading: And How Is Your Family?And How Is Your Family — an essay from Toby’s on-site writing archive, written before new work moved to Substack.
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Love Like a Thunderstorm
Continue Reading: Love Like a ThunderstormLove Like a Thunderstorm — an essay from Toby’s on-site writing archive, written before new work moved to Substack.
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Oh, the Characters of Middlebury
Continue Reading: Oh, the Characters of MiddleburyOne of my favorite things about working in restaurants is the unlimited entertainment potential of observing the characters that pass through. Middlebury, Vermont does not disappoint.Once, in High School, I took a class in Nonfiction Prose.
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New Articles on Elephant Journal
Continue Reading: New Articles on Elephant JournalNew Articles on Elephant Journal — an essay from Toby’s on-site writing archive, written before new work moved to Substack.
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Waiting for the Invisible, Part II
Continue Reading: Waiting for the Invisible, Part IIWaiting for the Invisible, Part II — an essay from Toby’s on-site writing archive, written before new work moved to Substack.
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