I have a bad relationship with my own capacity. I’m the type of person who is interested in a lot of things, cares about a lot of causes, and in general try to keep far too many plates spinning in the air at the same time. Yet, I keep adding one more thing. There’s always [...]
Earlier this week I posted about how some people need you to be a proof of concept that their own identity is valid. Here’s another aspect that I didn’t talk about. Sometimes people need you to be a proof of concept that the ways in which they are labeled are not their identity. We have [...]
In the new movie The Muppets, Walter grows up as a muppet in a small town full of regular (read: human) people, never growing beyond 3 feet tall while his brother is being played by Jason Segel. One day he sees the Muppets on TV and realizes that there are people like him and that [...]
Not very long ago, I was sitting with a group of people, and somehow the discussion turned towards whether this person should go to the Macy’s in downtown St. Paul at midnight for Black Friday, and more specifically, whether this young woman would be safe. For those of you who haven’t been to downtown St. [...]
Surprise! If I may inappropriately appropriate a biblical quote, the blog is now “a new creation, the old has gone, and the new has come!” Over the next year or so, I’m going to be putting some more work into this blog, into creating new material as well as revising some of the old material [...]