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March 2025
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Should Women Rule The World?
Should Women Rule The World?: The Duvet Insurrection Some women say the world would be a better place if they were in charge of everything. Some men agree, myself included. They say us men have had our chance and look where it’s gotten us: War, greed, and climate change that is spawning natural disasters. Why…
Going Deep With Filmmaker Ky Dickens
(excerpted from Substack newsletter: Empty Calories & Male Curiosity, #3) Last week I recommended a fantastic podcast called The Telepathy Tapes. I’ve heard from a few of you that you started listening this week and were similarly enjoying it. One of the things I’d hoped to do when I started this newsletter was talk to people…
Snow & Dogs
Snow is falling in Wisconsin again. Not a newsworthy event I know. But I am always shocked at how happy and peaceful I feel in watching it for the first time every year. And it is not flurries. It is the sideways kind. The kind that is coming down so fiercely your line of sight…
Generational Trauma
My grandmother was old the entire time I knew her. Yours probably too. But mine was infected with a strange form of kleptomania that only attacked at certain times. It attacked when she ate out at restaurants. Which meant mainly on the birthdays of her loved ones. She did not steal food. Or money. Or…
December 2024
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Mind, Body, Soul
Thanks so much to all of you that have been reading my weekly posts; I really appreciate the support. One of the questions that I’ve been getting recently is, “why are you writing?” Or more specifically, “why are you writing, now?” First, I’m writing because I enjoy it. Second, and more importantly, I’m writing because…
Ghost In The Graveyard
Have you ever teetered on the edge of starting something new? Of stepping out of your comfort zone to try something that there was a good likelihood you would fail at? I was spending time pondering these thoughts recently when the game of ghosts in the graveyard came to mind. I wasn’t sure why at…
9 Signs You Are A Good Youth Sport Parent
We all know those parents. The ones that force their kids into a sport. That yell and scream from the sidelines. That are constantly complaining about the refs, gossiping about other children, and politicking behind the scenes to make sure their kid gets more playing time. Parents that just generally make everyone else’s experience miserable….