- Nov 9, 2023
- 23 min
“IT'S JUST ABOUT FREEDOM, OBVIOUSLY”
Someone who has disliked what I’ve been writing lately (someone in great company: a party comprised of my wife and effectively all my...
- Jul 29, 2023
- 7 min
THAT’S WEATHER, NOT CLIMATE
This week, authorities have given us things like: “July 2023 is set to be the hottest month ever recorded in human history.” “July isn't...
- Apr 3, 2023
- 5 min
THE NEW HUMAN EPOCH
I love John Green’s now-finished podcast Anthropocene Reviewed. Love it. It really is everything I want in a podcast. I’ve even been...
- Jun 18, 2022
- 1 min
BACKWARDS AND UPSIDE DOWN
We may have reached peak nonsense; that, or I'm suffering a catastrophic stroke. Today I awoke and the first two things I read were from...
- Jun 9, 2022
- 3 min
VIRGINIA WOOLF: TWITTER'S PATRON
Folks of all temperaments and occupations keenly share their belief that the Information Age is uniquely foolhardy and strident. They...
- Jul 23, 2021
- 0 min
- Sep 14, 2020
- 3 min
WHERE ARE WE AT?
I just read an article titled “Humans exploiting and destroying nature on unprecedented scale – report.” It’s published on the website of...
- Aug 16, 2020
- 13 min
EVERYTHING SPEAKS: MEDITATIONS ON THE ANIMISM OF LANGUAGE
David Abram and Robin Wall Kimmerer write of the tremendous power of language to shape perception and, therefore, our relationships and...
- Aug 6, 2020
- 3 min
KIMMERER ON LANGUAGE
READING Kimmerer, R. (2017, June 12). Speaking of nature. Orion Magazine. https://orionmagazine.org/article/speaking-of-nature/ SUMMARY...
- Oct 13, 2019
- 6 min
TWO PERCENT?
Whenever I'm involved in conversations about intersex- or trans-related issues someone conflates trans with intersex and notes that one...