Category: Blog
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My main question right now
I once sent a reading list to my friend Michael, who is a PhD in philosophy and religion, to get his thoughts on using it to try and create a sort of self-directed masters in history, technology, and religion. He wrote back and said something like, “Cool, yeah lots of stuff you’d expect to see…
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Tariffs tariff-ing?
“Who’s paying for the tariffs? US importers mainly. September import price index data shows that US importers are continuing to pay most of the tariffs. The index shows prices before tariffs are applied. If foreign exporters were bearing a large portion of the tariff burden, we should expect to see a large decrease in the index. Instead, we’re…
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We’re Wrong
Read this little world-buster this morning from Philip Roth’s novel, American Pastoral. “You fight your superficiality, your shallowness, so as to try and come at people without unreal expectations, without an overload of bias or hope or arrogance, as untanklike as you can be, sans cannon and machine guns and steel plating half a foot…
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Osteria in Ravello.
Peder Severin Krøyer, 1890
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A list of blog posts I read 1st half of 2025
Here’s a list I was keeping in a text file of the blogs/articles/essays I was reading through the first half of this year. Before I started keeping a lot of them here. I was quite good about logging each piece I read and have since dropped off. Title: Blogs and essays I’ve read Tags: blogs,…
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What a weekend for Sadie
Two big ones to note for Sadie this weekend: Super proud of Sade. Very excited for her and what’s to come with the personal training. Tonight, we’re celebrating with pizza, salad, and wine. Just wanted to remember 🙂
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Dinner, Friends, Stories we Tell
Tonight, I had dinner with the band. That’d be Griffin, Paul, Doug, and Taylor. All my “mates” as the kids would call them, but way of Bluey. It was very real conversation. The kind that is about something. The kind that tries, with some kind of strain, to say something about the way things are…
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Into My Arms
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 1997 We got up in two phases this morning. Shepherd first, going to school. Greta and Goldie next, going nowhere thankfully. As it all started up, changing a diaper (Goldie) and getting a banana (Greta), I think I just got lucky and caught a sense of its beauty. And…
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Old Hymns
A friend I grew up with is going through a big health shock. Emergency surgery. Waiting on pathology reports. The stuff that gets shared in group texts to ask for hope and prayer. It’s really got me. He’s my age and has kids my kids ages. He is like me. I could be him. So…
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Clay Pigeons
Sadie often signs this song to the kids and I just want the lyrics here. Originally, this is Blaze Foley. We’ve played his The Dawg Years vinyl many times at the house and John Prine also has a good cover it. Today, Sadie sent me a video of her playing it on the guitar to…