Rough Drafts

Unfinished or quasi-finished prose that hasn’t been published elsewhere

Getting used to the cold.

Dylan / 6/19/2017

I swam for an hour and 25 minutes on Saturday, with my swimming buddy Zina, and it was good. The […]

Dylan / 6/12/2017

I wore my swirly purple Speedo for a two-hour swim in the Bay on Saturday. It was the morning of

Dylan / 6/10/2017

If we learned anything from former FBI Director James Comey’s testimony this week, it’s the importance of well-written memos. Comey’s memo

Dylan / 6/8/2017

I’m going to attempt to swim down SF Bay, from the Golden Gate Bridge to AT&T Park, on July 9.

Dylan / 6/2/2017

Like many Americans, I’m angry and disappointed about Trump’s repudiation of the Paris Agreement. What are we going to do about

Dylan / 5/23/2017

I read that Annie Dillard, when composing Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, was living in the suburbs and raising a family.

Dylan / 1/19/2017

One of today’s top recommended stories in my Medium feed is a piece intriguingly titled “How I Got My Attention Back.” I

Dylan / 1/6/2017

As a society, we are facing a crisis of understanding. Fake news is just the latest expression of a deeper

Dylan / 12/28/2016

This year I took the kids shopping with me on Christmas Eve. I gave them $60 each: A twenty to buy

Dylan / 12/15/2016

I’m done with Facebook for now, so I am signing off for awhile. Partly I am annoyed with the company