Tag: issues

hope you are happy

I wrote this letter to my son on the night of the 2020 election, when I couldn’t sleep. Just laying in bed after midnight, frantically thumb-typing into the empty notepad on my glowing phone screen. I’m publishing it now because...

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house rules

Lately I’ve been watching a lot of Home & Garden Television programming and I’ve taken note of a few themes: Every man must want a cave. Men need caves, for they are the only places they can be men....

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requiem for a boobdream

I guess breastfeeding, for me, is over? I’m still pumping for now, but the actual part that involves baby and boob in proximity to one another, I think the lights have gone up and the credits are rolling over that scene....

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tested

Yesterday afternoon I was working away on my laptop when I heard branches cracking and rustling in the bushes behind my house. I glanced out the window and saw through the chain-link fence a person crouching...

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an unsolicited opinion on a current event

I don’t normally like to do this kind of thing in this space, but here is my unsolicited opinion on a current event. For the past couple of weeks I’ve seen a rapidly escalating string of articles about the...

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the burden of stuff

Since January, in preparation for the move, we’ve been going through our stuff and donating or tossing the items we no longer want or need. “You know what would be fun?” I thought. “It would be fun to...

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