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Mark McElroyFind your path. Tell your story. Share what works.
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Mark smiling on a forest path
Mark outside Corbet’s Cabin
Mark and Clyde smiling on a ferry

A curious mind.
A public notebook.

I’m Mark—a writer exploring stories, useful tools, faraway places, and the possibilities hiding in ordinary days.

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An idea worth exploring

For the New Fascists, X Marks the Spot

With Musk no longer front and center, friendly, cheerful X is where the action is for everyone who isn't a crazy political doomsayer.

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Notebook

Compulsively slapping one's own name on things is a very poor substitute for having something named in one's memory or honor.

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Choose a path

01Life & Belonging

Faith, identity, and ordinary grace.

02Tools & Thinking

Technology in service of a life.

03Stories & Writing

Fiction, imagination, and making things.

04Places & Pictures

Journeys, photographs, and noticing.

A few good places to begin

Other lives.
Unexpected love.

Parallel Lines—a gay romantic sci-fi comedy.

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