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Summer Reading
When I was a kid, the local library held a summer reading program. You’d get little stickers for every book you read and once you’d filled up their sheet, you could get a prize. Last summer, I read the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy. I did it together with a couple of friends and […]
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Don’t Call It A Comeback
I started this blog in 2008. Over the years, the quantity of posts has waxed and waned, but in the previous two, there’s been essentially no activity. I’ve had very little time or interest in writing here. I write a lot. 60,000 published words already this year. My final tally for 2021 was 110,000. Another […]
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On Impotent Rage
I’m trying to process what happened. We all are. But we can’t even figure out what language to use. Was it a coup? An insurrection? A riot? How could this have happened? How could a country that still makes everyone take their shoes off to get on an airplane after one guy failed to detonate […]
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Lessons We Never Seem To Learn
A few weeks ago, I had coffee with a friend who mentioned he’d met a certain right-wing provocateur in person and found him to be really nice and “gentle” face to face, contrasting with this person’s online persona. I was reminded of this today, as I watched far-right politician Geert Wilders give his last address […]
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Quitting
I did something yesterday that I rarely do. I quit something. Two things actually, two tiny side projects I was working on. I struggle with quitting. I stay in relationships for too long. Stay at jobs long past when I should. Once I start a book, I always finish it no matter how much I […]