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I would like to learn how to be kinder to people
Wait, no. I would like to learn how to become the type of person who does not have to try so damn hard to make myself be kind to people. Wait, no...
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What happens if we stop believing good things are possible?
A while back I was talking with a friend about the ongoing horrors.
Apr 3
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Some notes on the longing for love and the struggle for the legal tender
If you don’t have a close personal relationship with someone in the performing arts there is a very good chance you totally missed the comments that…
Mar 14
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'I don't trust happiness. I never did, I never will.'
Robert Duvall's greatest performance, according to me.
Feb 26
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Hypothetical question that's also a personality test: Would you rather be excellent and celebrated and sick of it, or mediocre and ignored…
If there’s one things my kids excel at, it’s bizarre hypotheticals.
Feb 13
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"Why do guys have to sleep at all?"
Some thoughts on a curious little man who seemed to have been born for one thing, which he did brilliantly, all while gleefully running himself into an…
Feb 7
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Now is the envy of all the dead
Recently I stumbled across this 2014 essay in The New Yorker by Roger Angell, who was 93 when he wrote it.
Jan 30
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We watched a dog run into traffic the other day...
So I was picking my daughter up from a friend’s house on what passes for a semi-busy street in Missoula, Montana.
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