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Walker Percy Loves You and Has a Wonderful Plan for Your Life

Walker Percy Loves You and Has a Wonderful Plan for Your Life

In this open-hearted memoir, full of humor and compassion, Doug tells how trauma and healing showed him the value of every life and every story.

2021

Stories

Pinned

Doug Brown
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The Narrative Arc

My Aunt’s One Word Turned Me into a Lifelong Storyteller

An origin story

5 min readNov 12, 2022

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White heron against a black background.

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Pinned

Doug Brown

I’m Not That Jacknut

There’s another Doug Brown in Asheville

1 min readApr 14, 2024

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A frustrated woman throws up her hands while looking at her laptop.

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Doug Brown
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The Wind Phone

My Aunt Connie’s Memorial Service Involved a Dustbuster

Gothic and funny — just the way she would have liked it

8 min read3 days ago

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Young woman covering her face with her hand.

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The Wind Phone

I Was Interviewed About Wind Phones and It Was an Enlightening Experience

My first time being on a podcast

4 min readMay 3, 2024

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Antique rotary phone inside a Wind Phone, along with a box of tissues.

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Doug Brown
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Age of Empathy

When My Cousin and I Got Tossed Out of All-You-Can-Eat Crab Leg Night at Red Lobster

And how it helped heal my grieving Aunt Connie

6 min readMay 3, 2024

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Crab with claws extended on the surface of calm water.

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Doug Brown
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The Narrative Arc

How to Dress for Chemo

Here are stories from people I’ve loved, but you be you

5 min readApr 20, 2024

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Woman wearing a pink dress and yellow Converse All Star High Top Sneakers.

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Age of Empathy

The Trees Know Their Names

Every living thing is aware of its own life

5 min readApr 5, 2024

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The Trees Know Their Names

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The Other Thing Every Story Needs

I’m gonna leave it all out there tonight, y’all!

3 min readMar 22, 2024

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Exhausted woman face-planted on the sofa, humorous.

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Doug Brown
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The Narrative Arc

The Two Things Every Story Needs

No great epiphanies here, just encouragement to focus on the fundamentals

9 min readMar 20, 2024

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Two young girls laying on grass play telephone with cups and string.

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Doug Brown
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Petness

Lydia’s First Year with a Home

Safe at last

7 min readFeb 4, 2024

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Lydia, a fawn-colored pittie, looking concerned among her shredded stuffed toys.

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Doug Brown

Doug Brown

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The sacraments of ordinary life. Mountains, dogs, beer, Asheville. Doing my best to eff the ineffable. Oddly funny at times.

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