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Here are long-form blog posts I published recently:

• rediscovering the library as workplace

Here are microblog posts that I published recently:

• Spending part of my Father’s Day afternoon exploring a rhyming dictionary with kiddo in an urgent care waiting room, and I actually think that’s kind of perfect.

• Spouse lines: “We christened our car—wait, I’m not religious. We ‘heathened’ our car ‘Chester.’”

• Like Icarus, we have soared to new heights* only to now find that we have flown to close to the sun** *gotten away for years with buying knock-off versions of IKEA furniture **that our new, official IKEA accessories aren’t compatible with them

• Had a family discussion over breakfast about not following the example of certain behaviors depicted in music videos (taking the rotoscoped hands of strange men reaching out from comic books).

Here are news articles and podcasts I commented on recently:

• 🔗 linkblog: Podcaster John Dehlin’s answer to the LDS Church’s lawsuit: You don’t own the word ‘Mormon’

• 🔗 linkblog: BYU professor's novel 'A Short Stay in Hell' explodes in popularity — 17 years later

• 🔗 linkblog: Are frontier models really too dangerous?

Here are my reviews of books and other media I consumed recently:

• 📚 bookblog: Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches (❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️)

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Spencer