Steel Wagstaff
Trying to do good things for good reasons
Tag: friendship
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In Search of Lost Whittenbergers
It’s been a little bit of a whirlwind ever since I dug out the old issue of the Whittenberger Summer Writing Project and decided that I wanted to try to find and contact everyone who had attended. I can only imagine what organizers of high school reunions have to deal with, but this has been…
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Whittenberger Summer Writing Project: 1998
One of the other things that I’ve recently decided to do (apart from weeding my library and pruning my record collection) is to finally dig into the huge pile of papers, photos, notes, letters, and memories I’ve stored in boxes and carried from apartment to apartment over the past decade or so. It’s just been…
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Lorine Was Our Matchmaker: A Love Story
A picture of the finished rings. The ring Laurel made for me is on the left, the rings I made for her are on the right.
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“Happy Geeks”: A Story by Steel Wagstaff, age 16
This past week I started teaching an introductory college composition course for a group of incoming UW student athletes. It’s a small group, just 14 male students, and most of the group are football players. For their second writing assignment, I gave them an essay that I wrote was I was around 16 years old…
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10 Years Later: Quotations for a Friend
When I was a freshman in college, my best friend was Mark Eliason. He and I went almost everywhere together, and so nearly imitated one another’s mannerisms, speech patterns, and stock phrases that we’d regularly have other people ask us if we were brothers. We usually lied and said yes. After our freshman year, each…