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I write about connection, proactive alternatives to algorithms and AI. Essays, stories, poetry. New posts weekly. Paid subscription grants access to archives as well as content requests.
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“Are You Lonely Tonight?” (opens the original)
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For the last couple decades, it seems our culture has been obsessed with removing all need for human contact. Grocery delivery, online shopping, from pizza delivery to door dash dinners, self-serve gas to self check-out, QR codes and card scanners on the restaurant table, movie streaming, online gaming… even online education. Of course AI Therapy is the next step.And we wonder why people are so lonely! More than one in five thirty-somethings say they have no friends. Between 27 and 34% of adults
Photo Essay: Fly-Fishing Vacation (opens the original)
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Late every summer, since we moved away from MT/ID, I have returned to visit family who still live in the area, and always end up fishing. That is what I did with my dad, and what he did with his. It is also what some of my grand nieces and nephews do with my siblings and nieces and nephews when they get together. These places, where I learned to fish, are near many of the best trout fishing streams in the country. It makes it really hard for me to fish anywhere else. Though I was raised in Centr
The Original Search Engine (opens the original)
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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedI began my academic pursuit in college determined to become a preacher. It didn’t take long for the theology department to push me out, regardless of what I wanted to do with my life. Fortunately, my freshman composition teacher saw some sort of promise in my writing, and directed me to the school paper. When I arrived there, as a sophomore, they had the teacher's recommendation, but they didn’t have an assignment for me. Th
In Praise of Imperfection (opens the original)
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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedWe bought our current home just over ten years ago. The original footprint was built in 1949, and a major addition doubled that footprint in the 1980s. When we moved in, we found the blueprint for the 1980s remodel–I felt like I’d found a treasure map! Somewhere along the way, at least fifty years ago an owner planted a couple of grafted apple trees and a pear tree. When we moved in, one of the apple trees was still there, a
The Word of the Day: Rifacimento (opens the original)
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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedRifacimento: a recasting or adaptation especially of a literary work or musical composition I’ve grown so tired of the criticism I’ve seen of recent film adaptation of The Odyssey everywhere. I think most critics are completely missing the point. My eldest and I went to see the film a couple weeks ago. We went to “the cheap theater” on its discount da… <a href="https://
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