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  • How did I get here?

    How did I get here?

    Did you ever stop to think, “How did I get here?”

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  • Work=Beer Money

    Spent last week at Writers in Paradise. The paper I submitted for review is, After Midnight. Essentially it’s the story of the last couple of months of my…

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  • Transparency as strategy

    Transparency as strategy

    Just before Christmas a very cool story about a tiny frog in central and south America. These little guys aren’t sporting a powerful poison, rather they grow transparent…

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  • Grasshopper Gaslighting

    Grasshopper Gaslighting

    Scientists found a new species of grasshopper on a friend’s farm in the Cumberland Plateau of Tennessee. His farm was clearcut for years, having been a tree farm.…

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  • What is disability? Is it really a thing?

    What is disability? Is it really a thing?

    I was listening to the book Starry Messenger by Neil deGrasse Tyson. He was talking about disability, what is and isn’t and how, exactly does that apply. What…

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  • Firmly rooted

    Firmly rooted

    California. So ahead of us all is offering a new burial option starting in 2027. Human #composting. Certainly lends itself to that old adage, “we’re planting him/her tomorrow.”…

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  • Flush with success

    Flush with success

    When I was in high school a class of biology students conducted an experiment, they walked through the restrooms with petri dishes open to the air. Just petri…

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