The adventure continues…
I believe I speak for most of us when I say that we all have had to endure the Covid-19 Pandemic and the resulting shutdown of the global economy. It has hurt the most vulnerable among us – our poor, our elderly, our disenfranchised. It affects everyone’s health and livelihoods. And although it seems like, …
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I wanted to talk in this essay about politics. Not about Republicans or Democrats. I really don’t fit in either category. And neither should you, really. Political parties aren’t religions, and you don’t owe them your authority like a peasant may have once owed their king theirs. Nor am I going to talk about conservatism …
Note: This article was written on April 7, 2020. Since God is the highest good, He would not allow any evil to exist in His works, unless His omnipotence and goodness were such as to bring good even out of evil. Saint Augustine of Hippo, The Enchiridion Right now, I’m just not interested in what the news says all that much. All of the coverage is about Covid-19’s latest …
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Note: This article was written on April 1, 2020. No, it wasn’t an April Fool’s joke. Confession: I have tsundoku problem. According to Wikipedia, the bastion of weird information on the Internet, tsundoku is a bit of Japanese slang, a portmanteau formed from the Japanese words “tsude-oku” (meaning “to pile things up to use later”) …
Note: This article was written on March 23, 2020. Social rules don’t really make sense when you stop and think about them for five minutes. What people take to be “rude” or “polite,” what kind of manners you’re supposed to have at the table, what you’re allowed to say… there is rarely any rhyme or …
At the age of three, I was diagnosed with a condition known as Pervasive Developmental Disorder – Not Otherwise Specified (PDD-NOS). It sounds like a made-up disorder, but it’s actually a form of autism. “Atypical autism,” to be exact. Though some of the stereotypically autistic behaviors associated with atypical autism tend to be milder compared …
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