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The LGBTQ+ community might be the only group on the planet to look at a vivid, rainbow striped flag and think, “You know, what this flag needs is more colors! Let’s add some.” While we’re at it, the design is a little repetitious: stripe after stripe after stripe. How predictable. Let’s do this: add four Read more
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We had a well-equipped playground at the end of our street. Well equipped with apparatus made out of metal and not weather-resistant, splinter-prone wood. We played a wild game of playground equipment tag called “witchy-poo.” The rule was you were safe if on a piece of equipment with your feet off the ground. The “it” Read more
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I grew up in a small town. How small was it? We had to employ ghosts to have enough runners on the base paths. If we had four kids, that was enough for a ballgame. A pitcher and fielder and a batter and catcher. (Teams supplied their own catcher.) Six was the most common and Read more
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Not only did we believe in ghosts as kids, we played with them. They ran the bases for us in our 2-2 or 3-3 baseball games in Bovina. In Iowa , when the cousins played tag at our grandparents’ farm, the “it” kid was the ghost. The four oldest cousins on my mom’s side are Read more
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Pull your red, white and blue socks up Americans! We’ve got work to do. And, for the love of George, Thomas, Abe, Eleanor, Clara, Dorothea, Harriet, Sacajawea, Martin, the named and unnamed of history, or whomever your own historical mentor is, stop whining! Good grief! “The Supreme Court decided “X”; I’m no longer proud of Read more
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Some of you might remember that in 2019, I created and ran a program called, “Bucks for Butts”, which paid people to pick up cigarette butts for cash. (My targeted group of workers were the homeless, but it could be anyone.) I sometimes miss those days when I thought I could make a lasting difference Read more
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How much does your god love you? Would your god put on flesh simply to be with you? Would your god eat with you and your friends—even on days when you had taken more than was yours, and prostituted yourselves out of necessity or just for pleasure? Would your god pray with you and ask Read more
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I lie on my back on the bare floor and begin my surrender, slowly, deliberately. I roll my head from side to side, imagining water sloshing from side to side. Slowly slosh left; slowly slosh right. Repeat. I ask my eyes to sink toward the back of my head. I imagine the four eye muscles Read more
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In defense of Jeff B – Jeff Bezos, not brother-in-law, Jeff B, who is a prince and needs no defense. Working at Amazon.com changed the way I think about work, creativity, process, and language. Which is a lot. Some vignettes. What’s the biggest mistake you ever made? That’s the question former Amazonians ask each other when Read more
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