Category: Blog
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2026 U.S. Midterms: Preface to a New Chapter?
It seems as if even the most ambitious polls projecting a Democratic turn in the Congress and Senate had not priced in last nights results. A Republican incumbent governor in Texas – yes, that Texas – was defeated. Kansas is sending a Democratic senator to Washington for the first time since, I believe, 1932. There…
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Why Gen Z Media is so Meaningless
Beautiful essay on the media environment that Gen Z faces, a lack of shared culture and language, and why this creates a level of nihilism and apathy among their generation. I will admit, faced with the news of the day any given day, it is not hard to understand why apathy is setting in. You…
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Nostalgic. For What?
I wonder what it’s like to live in a world where you’re unoccupied; where you don’t open a phone to pacify and conceal yourself from interacting with anything around you. I’ve somewhat lived in this world, but I’m so far from it now. It has left me and without brave rejection, I’ll soon forget about…
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Visually Appealing
Seeing this, I wanted to get up and leave the screens for all that is good.
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End of Summer Check In
This has been a fun summer, quite full compared to last. In a few weeks, we’ll have all three kids in some sort of school at the same time for the first time. That’s fun! And it reveals something true: every person who has said “it goes fast” is correct! We started the summer with…
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Kid’s first lost tooth: Shepherd!
After a few weeks of a “wiggly tooth”, Shepherd overcame some nerves and fear and let us pull his first baby tooth! “Pull” is a strong word; it was barely hanging on. Shepherd, you were very stoked when it came out and you saw it and your realized that you’d overcome your fear. That was…
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Important experiences/identities getting relegated
Perhaps only in anticipation, or in retrospect, is this a useful way of thinking, but here it goes: Very important periods of time in one’s life will end and be thought of as not so important; not unimportant, but just that one will think, “how interesting that I thought that would be the most important…
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Happy Independence Day!
Read this piece in Compact Magazine from James Vaughn, a historian, at the University of Chicago and find myself quite amazed by the unique historical event that is the 250th anniversary of The United States. The Persian and Roman empires have been in the cultural psyche recently, because America has warred with both Iran and…
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Shepherd goes to camp!
We dropped Shepherd off at Rockmont last Sunday, and for all we know he’s having a great time! This was such a big part of my early adulthood and start to life; where I made great friends, great strides in my life’s formation, and where I met and fell in love with Sadie. So, to…