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A Total Eclipse of My Heart

We gathered in great numbers. Most of us had never seen a sight quite like this. We came together for a total solar eclipse. It covered the entire continental US on August 21, 2017. We were down in Columbia, SC where we would see 2 minutes and 30 seconds of totality. There were many others […]

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Prince: Thank you for making it OK to be Weird

I was late today to the news…the news that Prince had died. I was battling bugs all day on a website and only tuned into social media around 4:30 in the afternoon hoping for a joyful respite from the hell of battling iPad and surface tablet bugs on a website I had developed. I has […]

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It’s never too late to start

Today would have been my mother’s 59th birthday. That means tonight I do my annual pilgrimage to the Bingo Hall to play in her honor. Last year I won for the first time since her death (I only go once a year, so 1 win in 8 times). And at the moment I won, the […]

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Social Responsibility vs Social Irresponsibility

It has felt for some time like there is a great tension in the world between the forces of social responsibility vs. social irresponsibility. Is the socially responsibility environmental movement actually gaining traction against the wheels of corporate machines and governmental lackadaisicalness combined with population growth? Or, is there an exponential growth on the irresponsibility […]

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