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Thoughts on recalibrating the ol' life map in the After Times
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Stalking needs a #MeToo movement
What's happening to Kim Kardashian is nauseatingly common; just ask me; just ask anyone.
Feb 17
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Old Dog Energy and the Optimism of Puppies
Puppy school, a lovely beach, and wisdom from Bull Durham
Feb 16
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Let go or be dragged: A Zen proverb for March
Mixing metaphors, homilies, horoscope advice, and one theorem from statistics
Mar 17
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The North* Remembers
Forecasts of "wintery mix" for the Central Texas region are giving us flashbacks of a very bad week last year. (*North Austin)
Feb 2
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The booster, the break-up, and a death in the family
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2022, I mean, okay, I guess?
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Grief Counselors have Arrived and I Can't Focus
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Let go or be dragged: A Zen proverb for March
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Backstory: The Before Times
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Teaching: It seemed like a good idea at the time.
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Ask a Smart Person: An Interview with Melody Warnick
Talking about loving where you live, making friends as adults, and the motivational power of misery with the person who literally wrote the book on the…
Feb 1
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Grief Counselors have Arrived and I Can't Focus
On the word "cremains," lumpy timing, my mind's tendency to wander, and a couple of puppies currently raging through the front hallway with what may be…
Jan 26
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Ask a Smart Person: An Interview with Entertainment Writer Bex Sinden
The exhausted-social-worker-turned-"Obsessed!"-entertainment-writer, talks about writing, reinvention, and our mutual weird fascination with Pete…
Jan 20
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The booster, the break-up, and a death in the family
Why can't life's bummers distribute themselves more evenly?
Jan 17
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Teaching: It seemed like a good idea at the time.
Education, especially higher ed, was supposed to be recession-proof. Apparently, it wasn't global pandemic-proof.
Jan 14
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Backstory: The Before Times
The great pandemic, the great resignation, and grated orange cheese
Dec 29, 2021
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Ask a Smart Person: An interview with Spike Gillespie
The author, entrepreneur, artist, and Goddess of Reinvention talks about rising from the ashes, having great ideas in the shower, and the magic of…
Jan 6
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2022, I mean, okay, I guess?
Walk in a straight line, sit quietly, and don't touch anything as New Years' intentions
Jan 4
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The booster, the break-up, and a death in the family
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7
2022, I mean, okay, I guess?
10
Grief Counselors have Arrived and I Can't Focus
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Let go or be dragged: A Zen proverb for March
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Backstory: The Before Times
8
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Teaching: It seemed like a good idea at the time.
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