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  • Laurel’s B-Day Mixes [Disc #26]

    Laurel’s B-Day Mixes [Disc #26]

    The 26th disc in a birthday mix series I made for Laurel a couple years back: Photo by Edsel L

    December 15, 2015
    Mix Tapes
  • Laurel’s B-Day Mixes [Disc #25]

    Laurel’s B-Day Mixes [Disc #25]

    Disc #25 in a series of mixtapes made for Laurel’s birthday in years gone by. Photo by Key Foster

    December 8, 2015
    Mix Tapes
  • Laurel’s B-Day Mixes [Disc #24]

    Laurel’s B-Day Mixes [Disc #24]

    The twenty-fourth in a series of mixtape presents made for Laurel’s birthday a few years gone now. Photo by Marine Corps Archives & Special Collections

    December 1, 2015
    Mix Tapes
  • Laurel’s B-Day Mixes [Disc #23]

    Laurel’s B-Day Mixes [Disc #23]

    Number 23 in a series of mixtapes I made for Laurel’s birthday some years ago: Photo by Center for Jewish History, NYC

    November 24, 2015
    Mix Tapes
  • Laurel’s B-Day Mixes [Disc #22]

    Laurel’s B-Day Mixes [Disc #22]

    The 22nd in a series of mixtapes for Laurel’s birthday back in the day: Photo by jfiess

    November 17, 2015
    Mix Tapes
  • Laurel’s B-Day Mixes [Disc #21]

    Laurel’s B-Day Mixes [Disc #21]

    The 21st of several discs I made for Laurel’s birthday a few years ago. Photo by hfb

    November 10, 2015
    Mix Tapes
  • Laurel’s B-Day Mixes [Disc #20]

    Laurel’s B-Day Mixes [Disc #20]

    Here’s the twentieth in a series of mix discs I made for Laurel’s birthday a few years ago. Photo by Theen …

    November 3, 2015
    Mix Tapes
  • Laurel’s B-Day Mixes [Disc #19]

    Laurel’s B-Day Mixes [Disc #19]

    Here’s the nineteenth in a big collection of mixtapes I made for Laurel’s name day a few years ago.     Photo by State Library and Archives of Florida

    October 27, 2015
    Mix Tapes
  • Laurel’s B-Day Mixes [Disc #18]

    Laurel’s B-Day Mixes [Disc #18]

    Here’s the eighteenth disc in a series of mixtapes I made for Laurel’s birthday a couple of years back now.

    October 20, 2015
    Mix Tapes
  • Laurel’s B-Day Mixes [Disc #17]

    Laurel’s B-Day Mixes [Disc #17]

    Here’s the seventeenth disc in a series of mixtapes I made for Laurel’s birthday back in the day.

    October 13, 2015
    Mix Tapes
  • Laurel’s B-Day Mixes [Disc #16]

    Laurel’s B-Day Mixes [Disc #16]

    Here’s the sixteenth disc in a series of mixtapes I made for Laurel’s birthday when were were younger (but no wiser!). Photo by Kim Bost

    October 6, 2015
    Mix Tapes
  • Laurel’s B-Day Mixes [Disc #15]

    Laurel’s B-Day Mixes [Disc #15]

    Here’s the fifteenth disc in a series of mixtapes I made for Laurel’s birthday a couple years gone.  

    September 29, 2015
    Mix Tapes
  • Laurel’s B-Day Mixes [Disc #14]

    Laurel’s B-Day Mixes [Disc #14]

    Here’s the fourteenth in a series of several mixtapes made for my wife’s birthday quelques années back. Photo by garryknight

    September 22, 2015
    Mix Tapes
  • Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal

    Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal

    I recently went to Salt Lake City for a family reunion. Among the relatives I saw was my only surviving grandparent, who is now 89 years old. He’s literally my oldest friend, and the oldest living human being that I know right now. His health is slowly deteriorating (he lost his driver’s license recently–which turns…

    September 21, 2015
    Reading Notes;What I’m Reading
  • Laurel’s B-Day Mixes [Disc #13]

    Laurel’s B-Day Mixes [Disc #13]

    Here’s the thirteenth in a big collection of mixtapes I made for Laurel’s name day a couple years bygone. Photo by gamene

    September 15, 2015
    Mix Tapes
  • Belle Waring

    Belle Waring

    I can’t remember exactly when I first read Belle Waring’s poems. It probably would have been at least a decade ago, and I do remember that it was one of her poems about nursing, maybe even “It Was My First Nursing Job”. What I remember most was feeling that I had discovered a voice that…

    September 9, 2015
    Favorite People;What I’m Reading
  • Laurel’s B-Day Mixes [Disc #12]

    Laurel’s B-Day Mixes [Disc #12]

    Here’s the twelfth in a big collection of mixtapes I made for Laurel’s name day a couple years hence. Photo by The hills are alive*

    September 8, 2015
    Mix Tapes
  • Laurel’s B-Day Mixes [Disc #11]

    Laurel’s B-Day Mixes [Disc #11]

    Here’s the eleventh in a big collection of mixtapes I made for Laurel’s name day a couple years bygone.

    September 1, 2015
    Mix Tapes
  • Laurel’s B-Day Mixes [Disc #10]

    Laurel’s B-Day Mixes [Disc #10]

    Here’s the tenth in a series of several mixtapes made for my wife’s birthday some moons ago.

    August 24, 2015
    Mix Tapes
  • Dom La Nena & Piers Faccini sing “Dessa Vez”

    Dom La Nena & Piers Faccini sing “Dessa Vez”

    The cello breaks my heart open, and the two voices mend it again. Photo by gleb sarkisov

    August 19, 2015
    What I’m Listening To
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About the Author

Hi, I’m Steel Wagstaff. I’m the product manager for Pressbooks, a Canadian company making open source book publishing software.

I live in Eugene, Oregon with my wife, Laurel Bastian, and our elementary-school aged son.

I love poetry, music, libraries, reading, playing pickup soccer, & eating vegetarian food.

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