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2 days ago

Sisyphus Gives Up

I’ve had enough of you. That’s the truth. That’s how I feel. I don’t want anymore. I want you to leave me alone. I don’t want to see you. I definitely don’t want to live with you. I don’t want to take care of you anymore. I’m tired of supporting…

Addiction

6 min read

Addiction

6 min read

Nov 28

The Prince and the Swine

It’s story-time. My dad is sitting in bed next to me. I am 8 years old. He is telling me a story. He says. Once, there was a Prince, a tall, blonde Swede with wise, blue eyes, nicely-muscled physique, above average intelligence, with plenty of charm and grace and wit…

3 min read

3 min read

Nov 23

…n kid and you cannot be upset if your kid is a little shit that gets in trouble. And you know what? Schools need to exercise their right to expel, fail, and hold kids back a grade.

“I Just Can’t Read,” Said The College Kid

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Ossiana Tepfenhart

I'm a teacher.

I'm a teacher. This semester, I had a student, on a discussion board post in an Intro to Literature course, copy another student's posting and submit it as her own. …

2 min read

Nov 16

I Do Not Need Your Advice; A Meditation on Duty

I’m done. I’m done. I’m done. I’m done. I’m done with my son. He’s 32 years old, never had a job, never had a place of his own, doesn’t have a car, doesn’t have a single friend, and never leaves the house. He rarely leaves his bedroom. The only time…

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I Do Not Need Your Advice; A Meditation on Duty

8 min read

Nov 13

Loki Tries to Explain

What do I owe to you? If you’re a realist, the answer is nothing. I owe you nothing. I am a singular consciousness, trapped in this body and this head, and my prime directive is survival and procreation. …

4 min read

4 min read

Nov 11

A Reflection on Death and Dying and the Nature of It All

My ex-wife’s father is dying of cancer. It could be weeks. It could be a few months. He has cancer in his right lung, neck and lymph node, probably his brain and possibly his liver. This is not a good prognosis. It was sudden, just started last week, and then…

Death

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Death

4 min read

Nov 10

Bragi, On the Taking of Vows

To be creative. What does it mean? Pulling something out of nothingness. Creating substance and meaning from where there is none. Pulling words and images and ideas and creations out of the ether, out of the empty void. So, how does it work? Where does creativity come from? If you…

Creativity

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Creativity

6 min read

Nov 2

… lot of a spending spree. We economist types call that “pent up consumer demand,” which just means: not being able to shop for a whole year or two, it turns out, kind of sucks.

The Crisis Marketing Doesn’t Know It’s In

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umair haque

This is major frightening . . . but true.

This is major frightening . . . but true. Consuming is what humans have been taught and bred to do, maybe it has something to do with our internal programming, I'm not sure, but our culture teaches us that consumption is what makes us real, what defines our identity, how…

2 min read

Oct 30

Freedom Is Rare; Claim It When You Can (In Honor of National Novel Writing Month)

It can be anything you want. Anything at all. It can be big, small, colorful or drab, grandiose or understated, loud or contemplative . . . It can be anything. Imagine such freedom. You can be anything you want. Maybe this morning it is a chivalrous knight astride a majestic…

Writing

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Writing

5 min read

Oct 28

And, So It Goes (An Homage to Vonnegut)

I dream I am falling into a pit. I keep falling and falling, waiting to strike bottom, because it has to happen any millisecond now, because I’ve been falling so long, and I can feel my body tense and anticipatory, because it knows it’s the end as soon as I…

7 min read

7 min read