As I’ve written before, I haven’t been a practicing Christian for many years. I won’t regurgitate my reasons again, but I handed in my Catholic Club membership card way back in my 30s. This doesn’t mean that I jettisoned my Christian values along with all that dogma and patriarchy, however, because I didn’t. While I…
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10 Things I Think I Think on July 26, 2025
It’s the dog days of summer. Hot as fuck. Can barely move. No energy for a preamble. Let’s just get into it. 1. Death keeps rearing its ugly head. One of my upstairs neighbors died last week. He was one of two brothers who lived together as roommates. Don’t really know the history there. Apparently…
2024 Wrapped
This will be my last post of 2024, so it’s a good time to take stock of the year that was for me. I think I’ll make this a regular thing at the end of each year like Spotify does. My Theme for 2024: Transition Every book has a theme–sometimes more than one–and so it…
You Can Always Go Home Again
I just returned from a week-long vacation in New Hampshire with M. I hadn’t been home in at least two years, maybe longer. It feels strange calling New Hampshire “home” because I haven’t lived there full-time since 1992. But New Hampshire IS home to me and always will be. Why is that? Why do I…