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Continue reading →: 31 Ways to Replace Doomscrolling
Photo by Glenn Carstens-Peters on Unsplash An incomplete list Doomscrolling or doomsurfing is the act of spending an excessive amount of time reading large quantities of news, particularly negative news, on the web and social media. The concept was coined around 2020, particularly in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Doomscrolling can also be defined as the excessive…
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Categories: Books
bell hooks – the will to change: Men, Masculinity and Love (Book Summary)
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Continue reading →: bell hooks – the will to change: Men, Masculinity and Love (Book Summary)Excellent and powerful. Reading the Preface already had me feeling all the feelings, and reading slowly, and making notes and highlights and talking with my therapist and family. hooks writes with clarity and power about the destructive impacts of patriarchy on both women and men. She knows that identifying the…
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1 Second Every Day – 2024
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Continue reading →: 1 Second Every Day – 2024I’m a bit late getting this together, but here it is! I love using the https://1se.co/ app, One Second Every Day, to reflect upon what each day brings. When I first used this app on my mobile device, I was always looking for the big moments, the life memories.. but…
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Continue reading →: Powells Trip 2025-01-17Another successful visit to Powell’s City of Books: And a second trip the next day: I went to grab the Becky Chambers novella and then got to ask the bookseller where they usually shelve a couple of texts I love about ritual, and then I looked through all of the…
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Continue reading →: Sky Full of ElephantsA short while ago, there was a meme going around TikTok, where women were asked what they would do if men no longer existed. And many of them expressed longing for freedom and safety. In a similar vein, this novel is an interesting and engaging magical realism that begins with…
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Continue reading →: Goals for 2025 (I reserve the right to change)Here are some of the things I’d like to do this calendar year. I reserve the right to update this and modify, but it will be fun to look back at this post in a year. My tendency would be to crank all these up, but I’m trying to be…
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Continue reading →: Tips and Tricks for Supporting a Partner with Severe Medical Issues2024 was a really hard year for us in many ways, and a sweet year in others. Shannon, my wife of 31 years, has had challenging health issues for the past several years. This gradually escalated into daily episodes of physical paralysis, more than half a dozen Emergency Room visits,…
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Continue reading →: Currently Inked Fountain PensI haven’t had an active fountain pen for a while, though I love them and have a nice group of them. Today I cleaned out and re-inked two of my favorites, and stained my fingers properly: On top is a Franklin-Christoph 03 inked with Robert Oster Tranquility. Underneath is Ken…
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Continue reading →: How I Roll for New Year’s DayFor the last few New Year’s Eves, we’ve gone to a hotel in Everett that sits on the marina and hosts a NYE party with a live band playing soul music. We enjoy the music and dancing, then head upstairs to our room and go to sleep. On New Year’s…
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