Parenting
All Our Broken Beaches: Thoughtlessness of Strangers
A day at the beach turns sour when inconsiderate visitors park machines on the sand where children play, filling the air with gasoline fumes.
3 min read
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Essay
Our longest-running shelf: first-person essays that follow one small experience out into the bigger questions it drags along behind it.
Public Health
What is Your Life Worth?
The victims of men like Brian Thompson live with fear every day. The only difference is: our society collectively gives exactly zero f***s about the ordinary person struggling to pay their medical bills.
4 min read
Parenting
First Week as a Dad?
Being a dad seemed like some strange monolith glimpsed through fog. More fiction than fact. Now, suddenly, I'm standing before it, humbled and in awe.
5 min read
Social Media
The Empty Chamber of Online Intimacy
The addict knows not what he does, nor why he rages when confronted: so same is the user of the Internet.
5 min read
Music
Tuning Out Perfection: Embracing the Flaws that Make Music Human
Pitch correction in music strips away the soul of singing. Authentic voices, like Garland's, reveal the beauty in imperfections.
3 min read
Spirituality
Beyond the Easy Answers
In hard times, I reflect on Chapter 20 of the Tao te Ching. In uncertain times, fluidity brings about hope.
3 min read
Film
Civil War Review: Does It Actually Mean Anything?
Civil War is a beautifully shot miss, nicking the target before zinging off into the brush.
8 min read
News
Bird Flu Outbreaks and Factory Farms
The United States has a ghoulish problem with its farms and the consequences could be dire.
4 min read
Pandemic
Holding Onto the Future
What really robbed us wasn’t the pandemic. I just finished reading a poignant article by Rachel Hislop entitled “Testing My Fertility at the End of My World”.
4 min read
Libraries
Libraries on the Front Line: Amazon and the Last of the Big Fish
How the big five paved the way for Amazon’s predation and the enshittification of publishing. There can be no question on this issue: electronic books provide
4 min read
Holidays
Carl Sagan Day 2023
Our shared humanity is visible in the light of the stars. Today is Carl Sagan day, and I am stirred, as always, to take a moment to pause, look toward the heav
3 min read
Politics
Whose Fault is it Anyway?
Until we stop looking at other human beings as the enemy, we’re going to keep having problems.
1 min read