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Holiday on Ice, Part 2
Tomorrow marks the two-week anniversary of my hernia repair surgery. Please, no gifts…
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Holiday on Ice, Part 1
Like most men, I’ve had it drummed into my brain from infancy that pain and fear are emotions any “real man” must labor to suppress. Trouble is, those emotions don’t want to be suppressed, especially when there are valid reasons for both…
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Spooky Noises
This being Halloween, the official release date of the Lightfall audiobook, I thought I’d share a couple of ominous sound clips with you….
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On Fairness
It hit me one morning, during the worst of our family travails, an insight among the most profound of my life…
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Happy Holidays
First of all, merry Christmas…
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Wanted
As I’ve mentioned before, the concept of thankfulness is a strange one for agnostics–not because we don’t feel the emotion, of course, but because we’re not sure what we’re thanking. The Great Unknown Cosmic? Impersonal luck? The Flying Spaghetti Monster? Take your pick. All I know is, there are times when I feel grateful to…
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Paris, 2013
When I was a junior in high school, I decided I wanted to be the kind of guy who was able to speak French…
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Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
Hi, all! I’m not sure what the Volcano will choose to do with my review of SPSCC’s Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo. It’s tricky because I was invited on short notice and my usual editor is on a much-deserved European vacation. The show only runs one more weekend so, for the time being at…
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Bad Jokes
I’ve spent the last two months busting my hump on a massive assignment for my day job, which explains why I haven’t been updating this blog. It also explains why my spine remains torqued into a question mark and I spend half each night applying the binomial theorem in my sleep. But! I finished that…
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45
She wanted to know was how it felt to be 45, meaning how is my thinking and emotional nature different from hers. Of course, I’m about as different from a 30-year-old German-born yoga enthusiast as I am from your average bonobo, so I didn’t know where to begin. Instead, I thought about ways I may…