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Summer Goals

Posted in life on May 8, 2013 | 2 Comments »

It’s not summer vacation yet, but I can feel it coming. This year has been rewarding, but also tiring, and I would be lying if I didn’t say I was looking forward to exploring some of my personal interests for the first time in a while. To that end, here are m goals for the [...]

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Accidents

Posted in life on March 11, 2013 | 2 Comments »

I certainly have not been a prolific blogger lately. That isn’t intentional, but it is what it is. So, by way of actually posting something, I offer the assorted hodgepodge of things: 1. While I am very excited for the coming summer, I am very proud of the teaching job I’ve done this year. Obviously, [...]

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A Clear-Eyed Morning

Posted in life, teaching, writing on January 4, 2013 | Leave a Comment »

I find myself suddenly ambitious, and I’m not alone in my household. Maybe it’s the start of a new year. Maybe it’s that I just had two weeks off. I suspect both are at play, but I don’t think that’s all of it. Since July, I’ve been working feverishly on my National Board Certification and [...]

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Crazy Together

Posted in life on December 12, 2012 | 1 Comment »

Because I wrote about the sudden and new growth in my tumor several months ago, here is a short update: All is well. Newest MRI shows no growth. Doctor and I both think it’s getting smaller. Me: Okay, so I’m not crazy to think it’s getting smaller. Doctor: If you are, we’re crazy together. That’s [...]

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Welfare

Posted in government, life, medicine, Politics on September 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

I suppose because it’s election season right now, I’ve seen a lot of talk about how everyone taking anything from the government is lazy. I’ve heard this even from supposedly liberal friends. I thought, given that, it might be a good time to share some personal stories… First Story My dad was poor. Dirt poor. [...]

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Disruption

Posted in life, medicine on August 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

As you may have noted, I did not post last week. There’s a reason for that, a pretty good one. I have posted, more or less yearly about the tumor I’ve been dealing with for fourteen years (Jesus, that’s a long time). It’s not life-threatening. It is a pain in my ass. tI has been [...]

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Priorities

Posted in baseball, life, writing on June 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

I write fiction. I want, desperately, for people to publish said fiction. The fiction I have primarily written for the last five years is a novel called Lonely Human Atoms. I am terrible at self-promotion. I do not like sending things out. This means that LHA has spent a lot of time on my hard [...]

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On Being an Introvert

Posted in life, thought on June 7, 2012 | 2 Comments »

I realize, suddenly, that while I wrote a review of the book Quiet over at Elephants for Bookends, I never got around to writing the more personal post I’d meant to put up here about what being an introvert has meant for me. The first thing you need to know is that my mother is [...]

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Different Versions

Posted in baseball, life, teaching, thought on March 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Over the last year, I have gone from being a non-presence in the online baseball community to playing a moderately prominent role. I write a lot at a Reds-focused blog and I edit for a national baseball site (and write every so often). Since I started becoming more active in that community, I’ve formed online [...]

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He Taught Me to Play

Posted in friends, life, music on January 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

It is impossible to overstate the importance of playing guitar in my life. I was seventeen when I decided I wanted to play the guitar. This was partially because one of my friends was learning to play and partially because I had discovered Eric Clapton. There were probably other reasons, but I have forgotten them. [...]

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