Timothy Egan
Timothy Egan
Timothy Eganis an American author and journalist. For The Worst Hard Time, a 2006 book about people who lived through The Great Depression's Dust Bowl, he won the National Book Award for Nonfiction and the Washington State Book Award in history/biography...
alive awake due eaten flying high insects longer night problem sleep until
we no longer have to get up at 4 a.m. We can sleep in until 6 a.m. The only problem is that we're all awake most of the night due to the high heat, humidity and being eaten alive by the steroid-enhanced flying insects around here.
afternoon couple escape forward heat home looking movies quality took
I took my crews to the movies this afternoon to escape the blistering heat for a couple of hours. Everyone is looking forward to going home and getting quality rest.
packaged ready
they were a little surprised, not only to find him packaged and ready to go by a N.Y. medic crew.
carpet looked music wind
In the spring, the carpet flowered amid the green, and as wind blew, it looked like music on the ground.
art jobs moving
Last year, [Pope Francis] was asked about his secret to happiness. He said slow down. Take time off. Live and let live. Don't proselytize. Work for peace. Work at a job that offers basic human dignity. Don't hold on to negative feelings. Move calmly through life. Enjoy art, books and playfulness.
sun related seems
The villainous sun and the starved bank did not seem related—yet.
blow wind sometimes
Sometimes the wind along the Pacific shore blows so hard it steals your breath before you can inhale it.
running believe loss
Here in the Great Lakes region, a fourth year in a row of declining water levels has caused millions of dollars in losses for shipping companies, marinas and other businesses and prompted further restrictions on future water withdrawals for expanding suburbs. "A lot of people just can't believe that we may be running out of water, living this close to the Great Lakes," said Sarah Nerenberg, a water engineer with the Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission, which conducted the study on shortages.
believe facts uncertain
I am beginning to believe that nothing is quite so uncertain as facts. (Edward Curtis)
years land cities
The larger question for the Northwest, where the cities are barely a hundred years old but contain three-fourths of the population, is whether the wild land can provide work for those who need it as their source of income without being ruined for those who need it as their source of sanity.
creativity insanity serendipity
You need messiness and magic, serendipity and insanity. Creativity comes from time off, and time out.
dog book writing
Most of the writers I know work every day, in obscurity and close to poverty, trying to say one thing well and true. Day in, day out, they labor to find their voice, to learn their trade, to understand nuance and pace. And then, facing a sea of rejections, they hear about something like Barbara Bush’s dog getting a book deal.