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My Harry Potter Penguin

What a Harry Potter penguin painted piggy bank says about being your own biggest fan

Statistically Insignificant

Statistically Insignificant One of the reasons I have loved writing this newsletter on a weekly basis is because it increases the amount of dialogue in my life. Even with limited responses, sitting down and writing out my thoughts feels as though I’m having a conversation with someone. When the newsletter actually does generate a conversation with another [...]

The Ways We Meet

The surge in online dating is a good thing

Tiny Beautiful Miracles

Every so often I am struck with these existential stoner thoughts about how miraculous human life is. Thoughts that are incompatible with the belief that there is no God. It’s a goofy exercise, but humor me. Think about the financial system. In the time it took you to read this, a computer bought and sold [...]

The Doldrums of Summer

I went through a few drafts of the newsletter this week before I settled on what I wanted to write about. I went deep down the JK Rowling rabbit hole and toyed with writing something about discourse and hurtful words, but it’s 88 degrees outside, I’m sunburned and hungry, and that’s not where my mind is right [...]