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In Defense of Gatekeepers and Screaming Loudly at Bigots

January 14, 2023

The next time someone complains to me about free speech, I’m just gonna yell “Stop!” In this week’s newsletter I’m riffing on grifting influencers, media...

Missing Home, Dreading Home

January 7, 2023

The east facing view from our flat apartment in Abu Dhabi Hey everyone, This week I am back in the desert and reflecting on a long conversation I had with a...

To the Year Ahead and Year Behind

December 31, 2022

Turning the page from December to January into 2023 Happy New Year! I hope you’re staying warm and making it through the holidays. The time between Christmas...

Back in Tacoma for the Holidays

December 25, 2022

You're a mean one, Mr. GrinchYou really are a heel,You're as cuddly as a cactus, you're as charming as an eel, Mr. Grinch. In my pre-teaching life, I spent...

It Was Capitalism All Along - #6

December 18, 2022

Photo by Andrew Ling on Unsplash Happy Sunday, Friday began my eighteenth winter break as an educator (whew!) and we’ll be flying back to the States for...

Newsletter #5 - Giving People their Flowers

December 11, 2022

Photo by Ioann-Mark Kuznietsov on Unsplash Happy Sunday, This week’s missive is an appreciation for really awesome people who have either inspired me or made...

Newsletter #4 - Dune Hits Different When You Live In Arrakis

December 4, 2022

A scorn of camels in the Liwa Desert in UAE - Photo by Yer Boi Happy Sunday, Yes, I too am mourning the US exit from the World Cup in Qatar. If the team...

Newsletter #3 - Leaning Into the Silence

November 25, 2022

Photo by Semyon Borisov on Unsplash Happy Thanksgiving, US vs England Day, and Stay Home & Chill Friday, Welcome to this week’s newsletter. Today I am...

Newsletter #2 - When Censorship Backfires And The Toll Of Opiates

November 19, 2022

Greetings and Happy Sunday Friends! This is Newsletter #2—you may have noted the migration from Tinyletter to Substack. Let’s just say I had a bad customer...

November 19, 2022

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