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I Have Seen the Future of Local Transportation
As regular readers know, my family gave up our car about a year-and-a-half ago. Our lease ended, we turned in the car, and we didn’t get another one. The idea was to go one month without a car and see...
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Changing Social Norms Don’t Present an Existential Threat
I read recently fired ex-Google employee James Damore’s “left bias” manifesto with much interest. I think a lot of people (especially younger white males) feel the same way he does. Damore’s memo...
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Goals Are Falling Like Dominoes
Regular readers of this blog will know that my journey toward becoming a published writer (and hopefully soon a published novelist) has been one of endurance and perseverance rather than overnight...
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Music Update: Three New Releases, Still In The Game
Arturia V collection (emulated, in my Macbook) I’ve always hesitated to call myself a musician, composer, or even music producer. I can find the keys on a keyboard the match the melody in my head, but...
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Eyes On The Prize: My Current Vision for a Messy Utopia
These days, reading the national news is like watching a whirlwind of shit in high definition. Emboldened white supremacists, the orange racist-in-chief, plans for an expensive useless wall, a...
View ArticleGastritis Healing Tips
For the past few months I’ve been dealing with gastritis and gastric pain, which has put a real dent in my mood, productivity, and general quality of life. I’m recovering, slowly, but this is one of...
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How Do We Reduce Young White Male Entitlement?
Recently I listened to an episode of This American Life entitled “White Haze” about various Alt-Right and Alt-Lite movements, and the Venn diagrams of belief systems that may or may not include men’s...
View ArticleEmotional Labor and Invisible Household Work – A Male Perspective
I recently read Gemma Hartley’s piece Stop Calling Women Nags–We’re Just Fed Up in Bazaar. Hartley’s article about emotional labor and the unacknowledged work many women do in terms of managing...
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Screen Time Battles–The Kid Solves It
Our daughter is a fighter, a fierce advocate for her own needs and preferences, and I wouldn’t have it any other way. But of course this means that when Kia and I impose screen time limits, we get...
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Fiction Writing Update, Thoughts on Motivation and Incentive
First-generation self-driving truck Two new fiction sales to announce: My story “The Equationist” will be published in Fantasy & Science Fiction, either in the Jan/Feb issue or possibly the Mar/Apr...
View ArticleThe Joy and Beauty of Consensual Violence
I’ve been thinking about why I love to watch people fight. Especially if both combatants are skilled and each has a good chance of winning. A big part of it is the vicarious thrill–imagining myself in...
View ArticleWalk Like a Medieval
About 18 months ago, shortly after we gave up our car, I started to get some weird nerve sensations–tingling and a little numbness–along the inside of my legs and pelvic floor. Since I’d been riding my...
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Berberine as an Alternative to Statins?
Illegal to pick–get your berberine from somewhere else. In the course of researching various supplements to cure my gastritis, I’ve come across quite a few interesting chemicals. One of them is...
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What Gig Needs to Do to Succeed
Almost two years ago our family embarked on a “One Month No Car Experiment” that has extended nearly two years. Since our daughter switched schools to one that is not within easy walking distance,...
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Apple Cider Vinegar for Acitinic Keratosis
For about a year I had noticed a very small (about 2mm by 4mm) patch of rough, scaly skin under my right eye. Sometimes it would heal up, but mostly it was slightly rough and red. I was pretty sure it...
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2017 Personal Recap and Thoughts for 2018
Qoöl NYE 2008 at 111 Minna Hello readers! Hope you had an excellent New Year’s Eve. I had a quiet celebration with my family this year–we made cheesecake, played Clue, and watched a Jane Austen movie...
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My 2018 motto is “no rushing, no slacking.” I’m going full tortoise. Many of the problems I’ve created for myself in the past couple years have come from rushing around. I broke my foot trying to get...
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A Good Life Is Made of Small Things
My father-in-law is dying. He most likely has only weeks to live. As dying goes, he’s doing it really well, surrounded by loved ones, with good professional home-hospice care. He’s a renowned poet and...
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No Car Experiment: Results and Conclusions
Almost exactly two years ago, our car lease expired, and my family decided to embark on a “one month” experiment of living without owning or leasing a car. At the time our daughter was attending an...
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A Terrifying Bout of Insomnia
I saw two dead bodies in the same week, and I stopped sleeping. The first body was my father-in-law, at his viewing. He looked natural, as if peacefully asleep. But his total stillness betrayed this...
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