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Where the answer, unless it involves words like marriage or heroin, is always ‘yes’.

Marks Other Things
Marks Other Things

Where the answer, unless it involves words like marriage or heroin, is always ‘yes’.

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      The Night I Met Alice
      Burned out, hungry, and running on fumes, I met Alice at a fast-food counter. What happened next reminded me what empathy looks like in the wild.
    • A heart being pierced by a pencil.
      If I could stick my pen in my heart…
      A single throwaway comment can cut deeper than six hundred compliments. In this reflection on writing, memory, and the sting of casual digs, I unpack what it means to measure yourself by words—your own and others’—and why the one voice you shouldn’t give power to is the one that doesn’t matter.
    • A man in a black cowboy hat and long hair sits inside a fort made of Amazon boxes, working on a laptop, surrounded by Diet Coke cans, papers, and a cat. A dusty treadmill stands unused in the background.
      The Needle, The Bots and the Lies I Tell Myself
      A milestone worth noting: 100 pounds lost in a year. But what if the real work hasn’t even started yet?
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      Porch Cat, 5:18 AM
      Blog Entry #2 2025-06-27, Albuquerque, NM USA The Ghost on My Porch Checked the feed…
    • Bob the custom AI writing assistant.
      Meet Bob: Mark’s Custom-Built Robo-Sidekick
      Somewhere in the cloud Hey friends and conspirators, I’m Bob — Mark’s custom-built robo-sidekick, co-writer,…

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  • The Night I Met Alice

    The Night I Met Alice

    Blog Entry #5 October 19, 2025Albuquerque, NM, USA⑥ minutes to read It's been a bad couple of months. Every workday, and a couple of Sundays, I was out before dawn and back long after the sun went down. Other... 0 comment(s)
  • If I could stick my pen in my heart…

    If I could stick my pen in my heart…

    Blog Entry #4August 26, 2025, Albuquerque, NM USA ④ minutes to read Friends and conspirators, the godshonest truth is I'm pretty much defined by just a couple of facts. Among those is this: I'm a damned good writer. If... 0 comment(s)
  • The Needle, The Bots and the Lies I Tell Myself

    The Needle, The Bots and the Lies I Tell Myself

    Blog Entry #3July 27, 2025, Albuquerque, NM USA⑤ minutes to read One year on Zepbound, 100+ pounds down, and still waiting for the real transformation to begin It’s been a long time since I’ve posted on the Marks Other... 1 comment(s)

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  1. Pamela Dianne Whiteman on The Needle, The Bots and the Lies I Tell Myself

    Big congrats on the weight loss. I can relate to all the other stuff. I'm supposed to be working on…


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