"Timothy Egan" is an United States/American author and journalist. For The Worst Hard Time, a 2006 book about people who lived through The Great Depression's Dust Bowl, he won the National Book Award for Nonfiction

[http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2006.html "National Book Awards – 2006"]. National Book Foundation. Retrieved March 24, 2012. (With blurbs and excerpt linked to his name.)

and the Washington State Book Award in history/biography.

In 2001, The New York Times won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for a series to which Egan contributed, "How Race is Lived in America".

[http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/National-Reporting "National Reporting"]. Past winners & finalists by category. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved March 24, 2012.

He currently lives in Seattle and contributes opinion columns as the paper's Pacific Northwest correspondent.

More Timothy Egan on Wikipedia.

I took my crews to the movies this afternoon to escape the blistering heat for a couple of hours. Everyone is looking forward to going home and getting quality rest.

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We no longer have to get up at 4 a.m. We can sleep in until 6 a.m. The only problem is that we're all awake most of the night due to the high heat, humidity and being eaten alive by the steroid-enhanced flying insects around here.

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[Sunday, Sept. 11: Work begins at 5 a.m. at an outdoor clinic near the New Orleans Convention Center, teamed with other paramedic crews, three civilian doctors, a third-year medical student and two New York Fire Department firefighters.] I have been tasked to lead this group by the EOC, ... We are evaluating injuries to soldiers and police, giving injections and providing other services as needed.

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Today the petty officer running the pharmacy asked us for some meds that neither of us had. We told him that we might be able to obtain the needed drugs from another source. My other source.

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While all this was going on, the one-and-only Jimmy Swaggart was preaching from the pulpit, while the choir was singing and everyone was yelling 'praise Jesus.' You just can't make this stuff up.

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[Only a Canadian television news crew he spoke with has even mentioned the Sept. 11 anniversary, but] we are thinking about it throughout the day, ... I'm proud of how hard they are working.

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In the spring, the carpet flowered amid the green, and as wind blew, it looked like music on the ground.

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