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Packing for the Apocalypse: Advice for Overloaded Travelers
I have seen a good bit of the world, which for some reason has cultivated in others the mistaken impression that I might be a good source of counsel when it comes time to pack for a trip. Let me assure...
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Travel Tips: Can Americans Use Debit or Credit Cards While Visiting Cuba?
I often fantasize about the jobs I’d hold in alternate realities. Singer. Hair stylist. Travel Agent. I can’t sing a song that anybody would ever really say was worth listening to, and my bangs are...
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Scattered Tribes: What Do We Owe The Syrian Refugees?
I wrote this letter in response to a question from a friend on Facebook about my views on Syrian refugees. R: You wrote me, somewhat out of the blue, to ask how I will feel when extremists make their...
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Resolutions and Recorrelations: On Becoming an Ex-Suicide
“The difference between a non-suicide and an ex-suicide leaving the house for work, at eight o’clock on an ordinary morning: The non-suicide is a little traveling suck of care, sucking care with him...
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Drumpf’ed – An Open Letter to Trump’s Supporters
Will the real Trumpites please stand up?
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Hey, Trumpettes! I’ve Got a Message to Relay.
“If you want to destroy my sweater/ pull this thread as I walk away / Watch me unravel / I’ll soon be naked …” -Weezer I. Have you ever wished, at some point over these past three weeks (yes, it’s only...
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Atheish: An Atlas of Spiritual Skepticism
1. “Here be dragons.” It’s the enigmatic message of warning scrawled across the Southeast Asian coastline on one of the oldest globes in know existence. Look closely at this one-dimensional...
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Health care’s luck mandate: why the not-sick-and-nearly-dead should worry, too.
Last week, I visited the dentist. It was a rather mundane undertaking: a pleasant hygienist with a difficult-to-place accent cleaned my teeth, and as he did so, he entertained me by musing on a variety...
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On Not Moving to Cambodia, or: How to Stay Present through Trying Times
Last Saturday, while out with Gabi on our afternoon neighborhood constitutional, I happened upon a garage sale. The sale was of outdoor stuff, mostly, spread out over the grassy front lawn of a...
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White Fragility: What it Means and Why it Matters in Portland Now
It’s been a tense few weeks here in Portland: the owners of a nascent burrito food cart were shamed and shunned into shuttering their business after the um, enterprising, women bragged about nabbing...
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