At the beginning of September in 2007, I went to Bronte Creek Park very early one morning when Alex was still asleep. Late summer there shows a bit of the coming fall: the tall grass in the fields was turning brown, the thistle was dry, and the sun was closer to the horizon than before [...]
I have a love of history that manifests in a desire to touch it, to see it; or at least, to see what it has left behind. I have several Greek coins over two thousand, three hundred years old. A few coins with Elagabalus on them from Rome, a handful of bills from the Weimar [...]
I wake Alex up early, and we pack towels, books, and drinks into the car. We’re on our way right on time, and we stop at the usual place for bagels and coffee before setting out on the highway.
It’s a beautiful day, the best of the summer, and the last of the summer. There’s [...]
There has been a discussion at DPChallenge.com lately about the nature of morality. Typically, the religionists are lined up on one side, arguing that the only moral source in the universe is their particular god. The atheists dutifully face off with them, presenting ideas about morality’s prehistory, its probable source in genetics, how it [...]
How many times have I been insulted in life? How many times has that been in the bodiless environment of the Internet?
Exactly. And so I wonder why one small insult out of countless others has me bothered.
I’ve had a lot of success on Craigslist. I recently posted an ad for an iPod [...]
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