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Christopher Gronlund
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He/Him. I do a narrated short fiction podcast called Not About Lumberjacks (http://nolumberjacks.com). When not doing that, I like juggling, canoeing, hiking, and playing Irish tunes on my mandolin - even though I'm not very good Ⓥ
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In this sequel to the 1st anniversary episode of Not About Lumberjacks in 2016, we catch up with Erik Nilsson and his father nine years after Erik left everything behind to go live in an old lumber camp in Maine.

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Sunlight breaks through, and illuminates, a forest in a magical glow. Text reads: The Art of the End - Written and Narrated By Christopher Gronlund
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In this sequel to the 1st anniversary episode of Not About Lumberjacks in 2016, we catch up with Erik Nilsson and his father nine years after Erik left everything behind to go live in an old lumber camp in Maine.

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Sunlight breaks through, and illuminates, a forest in a magical glow. Text reads: The Art of the End - Written and Narrated By Christopher Gronlund
December 8, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
December 8, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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Other Christmas movies:

In Bruges. (That tower scene warms the heart!)
Brazil. (It'll give you wings!)
A Midnight Clear. (I can hear that bullet wound!)

But a REAL Christmas movie ya gotta see, if you think, "It's Goodfellas meets It's a Wonderful Life," is 29th Street!
A four-panel comic strip. Panel One: Red and Blue cartoon characters on a green background. Red says, "Hey guys, is Die Hard a Christmas Movie?" Blue holds a finger to their lips and says, "Shhhh Panel Two: Blue hugs a sort of smiling Red and says, "You don't have to do this." Panel Three: Still hugging. Red is breaking. Blue says, "You don't have to do this every year." Panel Four: Red hugs Blue. Red sobs and digs their fingers into Blue's back.
December 6, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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I know @badhandbooks.bsky.social has had a rough go with issues of THE END TIMES being held up by the USPS, but I can verify they are still reaching mailboxes. My copy arrived today, and it’s worth the wait! 😀
(I have the digital copy they sent, but this is how it’s meant to be read.)
A copy of a fictional newspaper called THE END TIMES. “Issue No. 1 - The Very Most Of The Little We Know - August 5, Year 12.” Highlighted sections above the fold: Editor’s Note, Events, Births, and Trades.
December 4, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Happy Black Friday...

Remember what Fugazi always said:
"You are not what you own!"

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Merchandise
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November 28, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Thanks to the mighty @mistalee.bsky.social, I finally got to do some video game writing! A bit about that, here...and a link to the game in comments...

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Other Writing | Christopher Gronlund
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November 28, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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We usually go hiking on Thanksgiving morning, but I wanted to reach 30 miles on the bike. Then, realizing that was ALMOST 50km, I decided on a bit more. Saw coyotes, rabbits, countless birds, and a couple bobcats!
A bobcat saunters along in the grass on the left side of a paved trail through trees on a sunny morning. A Garmin bicycle computer/head unit. It reads: "New Distance PR! 32.31 mi. 26.09 mi 9 NOV 2025. [That was my previous personal best.] Beneath that is a high exercise load measurement. Puffy clouds illuminated by the sun beneath the horizon. A parking lot is seen between trees and bushes. A winding paved trail cutting through the trees.
November 27, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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The goal this morning is a 30-mile bike ride.
But then, because I always convert things to metric/Celsius for friends in places more standardized/civilized, I realized if I hit 31.07 miles, that's 50 km, which sounds more impressive. So, we will see how it goes.
I have cooler weather on my side...
November 27, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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I've not painted minis in forever, but love seeing what people are up to. Also, it seems like @thatdarnsatan.bsky.social and Holly should be following each other here...
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Use only one art piece to convince people to follow you!
November 27, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Yesterday was a ride from Denton, Tx down to Lewisville for breakfast (and then a train ride back).
(More photos in comments...)
Point of view image of arms reaching out toward (and hands holding) bike handlebars. A paved trail ahead, with sunlight breaking through trees on the left, and grass, train tracks, and more trees on the right. Point of view from a bike. A paved trail with a low concrete wall on the right. A bit of a lake below the bridge, and a railroad bridge to the far left. Blue skies above. Cynthia Griffith in the foreground taking a selfie with Christopher Gronlund in the back. They are on a patio, with glasses of water, a water bottle, and a bike helmet on the tabletop. Behind them, a glimpse of Christopher's bike and a restaurant (7-Mile Café). Cynthia and Christopher wear riding gear. A photo is a white sign with black lettering beneath a rain shelter at a train station (although it's a shade shelter in this image, with wispy clouds and blue sky). On the left is an arrow pointing right and "DENTON." On the left is an arrow pointing right and "CARROLLTON." Beneath that, another sign with an image of a railroad crossing gate. It reads: Stop. Collaborate and Listen. The signals and arms mean don't go. At DCTA, your safety is music to our ears.
November 23, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Just recorded the 85th story for Not About Lumberjacks. This one is the 10th anniversary story on top of all that!

Thanks to everyone who's listened, narrated, and supported the show over the past decade.

I really like the way this one turned out...

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10 Years of Stories | Christopher Gronlund
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November 16, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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A three-day weekend is over. Cynthia's birthday is on Halloween, so we began with a hike. Saturday was a chill day, and then Sunday morning was an 18-mile bike ride. Definitely a weekend I wish were even longer...
A stream meandering through trees and grass in the light of morning. Blue skies above. A hiking trail cutting through trees and grass illuminated by the early morning sun. Steam rising from a shallow stream full of rocks in the early morning sun. Along the banks on each side: rocks and trees. An anole on a human wrist. This is Terrence, the anole who's lived at the bottom of our stairs for a long time. (He might be the son of the original Terrence.) He hitched a ride on the car and was on the hood when we finished our hike. I tried catching him, but he leaped off and now likely lives in a posh backyard.
November 3, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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William is a snazzy person who writes and chronicles cool things.
November 2, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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While I don't like that a writer as great as Sarah Kendzior is needed, I'm glad she's doing what she does. Always spot-on, and this one even a bit more than her usual bullseye.
sarahkendzior.bsky.social Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · Oct 28
New article! On the shutdown, a nation treated as prey, and the meaning of leverage: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-shutdown
October 29, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Congratulations to the mighty @bradlisti.bsky.social on reaching 1000 episodes of the Otherppl podcast. If you want great discussions with [mostly] literary authors, you'll find no better!
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1000. Susan Orlean
is the author of the memoir , available from Avid Reader Press, and she joins me for my 1,000th author interview. Orlean has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1992. She is the New York Times...
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October 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Spent a long weekend in East(ish) Texas writing, chatting by fires in the evening, and even messing with some sound gear. (In this short video, the Instruō Pocket Scíon.)

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In a Meadow with the Instruo Pocket Scion
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October 27, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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We have a couple originals by Jody, and they are even more lovely in person!
jodyvanb.bsky.social jodyvanb @jodyvanb.bsky.social · Oct 24
Painting blue jay feathers at the moment. If you would like one to add a touch of nature to your room, or as a subtle #GoJaysGo, let me know! $60 CAD
A blue jay feather, painted with a drop shadow. Three watercolour paint tubes sit on the top of the paper on the left and two paintbrushes lay on the right hand side.
October 24, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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In November, in honor of the 10-year anniversary of my narrated short fiction podcast, Not About Lumberjacks, I'm actually writing a sequel to an earlier story. That story was in honor of making it one year. Here are the openings of each...
A page from a notebook with this written in black ink: My father’s body sits in zazen in the next room, but he’s not there. What remains is a shell, a vessel for a brain that sensed and experienced the world, a mass of fat and protein that allowed him to think and dream, to write novels and find a way to live a life true to himself. Muscles that pulled stones from the earth and hoisted his massive body to the tops of the highest trees just for fun. A heart that cared for all creatures and wrote stories and poetry that moved me to tears. My father’s body sits in zazen in the next room, but he’s not there. A page from a notebook with this written in black ink: I was four years old when my father put the bad end of a Mossburg 500 shotgun in his mouth and pulled the trigger. My mother always told me I was better off without him, that he was a youthful mistake whose only purpose was contributing to my existence…not that my presence in her life ever seemed to bring her joy. Yes, my mother is a bitch—there’s no nice way of getting around it. She was made for her job as CEO of Barnthorne Holdings. I’m not sure she even likes me much as an adult, although my dedication to work has been brought up as a point of pride for her at family holiday gatherings she sometimes attends. I’m that director at the office you hate: in early and leaving late. My saving grace is that I’m not a complete asshole on top of somebody with a compulsion to turn work into life. While I don’t expect those below me to start as early and leave as late as I do, most of them are there when I come in and leave after I’m gone. It trickles down to the managers beneath me, and all the people beneath them. I’m not about to tell them to stop. Which brings me to the heart attack that wasn’t a heart attack…
October 17, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Maiden voyage on the new bike. Just a short outing before the world woke up. It climbs so well!
A green/"lichen" colored Trek Domane leans against a light post off a trail. Its front light illuminates some vegetation in the background. Behind the bike are rocks and a creek. A bike headlight illuminates a paved path in the dark. In the distance are the lights of Texas Motor Speedway.
October 16, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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I name modes of transportation. I don't drive a 2013 Toyota Corolla...I drive "Durin." So, when it came time to buy by first bike since 1991, it needed a name. Trek calls the color "lichen," and that evoked Swamp Thing -- a story about transformatation.

Meet "Alec," named after Swamp Thing's human.
A bike tech and Christopher Gronlund stand in a Trek shop in Southlake, Texas. The tech wears a backwards cap, a blue TREK t-shirt, and black pants. Christopher wears black shorts and a gray t-shirt with the Not About Lumberjacks logo on it. Behind them is the bike shop. Before them is a Trek Domane AL5 Gen4 in "Lichen" green. Both people smile.
October 16, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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I always loved Magic 8-Balls. As a kid, I cracked mine open to see what was inside. Was surprised and then cracked into the liquid part. (And, being me, had to taste the liquid.) That inspired this old story:

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Mr. Knowitall
A 40-something-year-old drifter returns to his hometown after his parents' death to discover the only thing left to him in the will is a plastic Magic 8 Ball.
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October 15, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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I thought we might do 5-10 miles on the bikes this morning. Ended up doing 25.66...my longest ride ever! We saw a lovely sunrise and lots of Halloween decorations.
Christopher Gronlund in the foreground giving a thumbs up. He wears a green shirt and black gloves. A black bicycle helmet is strapped on his head. In the background, along a road cutting through grass and trees, is Cynthia Griffith giving a thumbs up. She wears a pink cycling jersey, black helmet, and sits on a black Trek Domane AL5 Gen4. She holds her white mid-90s GT Outpost Trail bike, which Christopher was riding today. Cynthia Griffith wearing a pink cycling jersey, black helmet, and sitting on a black Trek Domane AL5 Gen4. She holds her white mid-90s GT Outpost Trail bike, which Christopher was riding today. Sunrise photo through the trees along a trail heading toward Grapevine Lake. Christopher Gronlund posing in front a a Halloween yard decoration of a shark coming out of the grass and eating a skeletal pirate. It's a bloody mess. Other decorates (pirate themed) are scattered around the yard. Christopher is on the sidewalk pointing back at the shark with the thumbs on each hand. His mouth is agape, because that's how he do...
October 12, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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I've been tinkering with the Instruō Pocket SCÍON for some sound beds for the 10th anniversary Not About Lumberjacks story in November. An open Patreon entry about this snazzy little gadget...

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Pocket SCION Sample | Christopher Gronlund
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October 7, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Up well before the sun for a really nice ride. Met a doggo named Arthur Dent on the way out of town and worked a coffee stop into the ride. (Our town needs more options.) After that, more miles and soooooo much fun!
An adorable corgi mix looks up at the photographer. Arthur Dent is a good doggo, and there's no better way to begin the longer ride in decades than with cuteness! I rode Cynthia's mid-90s GT Outpost Trail instead of my 1991 GT Timberline, which isn't in as good a shape. It made a difference...hit some new Garmin records. Anyway, the photo: an old white mountain bike leans against a silhouetted tree. In the background, the glow of the sun still well below the horizon. Cynthia on her new Trek AL5 Gen4 (black) in the parking lot of Trophy Club Golf Course. She wears a green top reading Team Vegan (the group she rides with), and black cycling shorts. A selfie of Christopher Gronlund and Cynthia Griffith. Both wear black cycling helmets. Chris's face is a bit red 'cause he's not in the same mighty shape as Cynthia. But...he's getting there!
October 4, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Cynthia got a new bike earlier this week.
This morning, she encouraged me to take it for a spin.
Now *I* want a new bike... 😅
Cynthia (in her Team Vegan riding kit for sizing) and Lawrence (bike tech at Trek in Southlake, Texas) posing with Cynthia Trek AL5 Gen 4 (black) at the Trek shop. A black Trek AL5 Gen4 on a bike stand in a Trek shop. A black Trek AL5 Gen4 leaned against a garbage can on a dark, early morning ride. A red tail light/Garmin Vario glows behind the seat, while I headlight illuminates the front of the bike and pavement. A point of view shot of a paved trail in the dark. Steel sides of a bridge can be seen. In the distance, an overhead trail light.
October 2, 2025 at 3:02 PM