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Looking back at 2020
12/9/2020 Anyone who has ever lived with a young cat has had an experience something like this: you’re sitting on your couch, your home peaceful and quiet, when all of a sudden, with a sound like unzipping velcro, or tearing burlap, a furry demon ricochets through the space, bouncing off …
Protected: Thinking about how I would like to live
Ruminations on personal style
Of late I’ve been thinking about the elements of my personal style and where they come from. Why do I like wearing grey so much? I hated the color brown when I was a child, but now I love it and wear it all the time. We are all influenced …
How to be kilted without being homophobic or transphobic
A few weeks ago I received a compliment at work that set me to thinking. The specific circumstances were that I was at On Point, checking in a young, Asian couple for their Genius Bar appointment. As I finished up with them the woman turned to me and said, “I …
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Thoughts on intense friendships
I wrote about friendship over two years ago and found myself wanting to do so again. Rather than attempt to revise what I wrote last time I intentionally didn’t read my last effort. Instead I approached the topic with a clean mental slate. I’ll leave it to you to decide …
What do I say?
What do I say to you who are women, when I am a man? What do I say to you who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, when I am straight? What do I say to you who are Black, Latino, Asian, Indigenous, when I am White? What do I …
Resolving America’s Original Sin
As many of you know I was raised Catholic. There’s a thing, therein, called original sin. If you’re not familiar with that concept it’s the idea that there is one, first bad act, that has tainted everything that came after it. Whether you believe in talking snakes and magic apples …