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Wax and Wane
Like the phases of the moon, our country has slowly moved from embracing conservative, anti- (big)-government ideology toward a more socialist democracy, and back again. In the 18th Century, we threw...
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Essentially Speaking
What makes a worker essential today? Certainly nurses, and Happy National Nurses Day, are critical to our healthcare system, and doctors and therapists and pharmacists. So are grocery store workers,...
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The Center of the Universe
Last evening in America’s Capitol, peaceful protesters were tear gassed so that our toddler-in-chief could take a photo-op in front of a church, holding a Bible. Was Mr T concerned about police...
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A Transformative Culture
Calls for racial justice and defunding of the police are a constant across our country. Old, arthritic knees of legislators knelt on marble floors in our Capitol for nearly nine minutes yesterday....
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Unmasked
As we were driving home from Florida yesterday, we heard on the news that bars would no longer be serving alcoholic drinks. One night we had pulled our golf cart up to an outside bar on Santa Rosa...
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Glamp Camp
Ever want to just get away from it all? Our friends Yoko and Rick – who happen to be retired public health officials- picked us up last weekend for a little trip back to nature. Only this campsite was...
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Fast and Hard
I’ve been thinking about New Zealand lately. Bob mentioned something in passing that is now stuck in my brain like a never ending podcast; do you know how many COVID deaths, how many TOTAL people have...
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A Cold Day in TX
I was going to write about refrigerators… and washing machines. About how my Nana didn’t want to give up her ice box, but she finally relented. When I was young, she would send me to the store to buy...
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Overdose
When is too much of a good thing bad for you? How does passion turn into obsession? It turns out the Pumpkin is a pretty natural soccer player. I drove him to his soccer game over the weekend and...
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Commodified Attention
I’ve been thinking a lot about Facebook. I had just posted my last essay “That’s HOT” when it went down this week. Only one “like” and no comments? I kept trying to refresh, and wondered for a second,...
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