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The Trouble with All of It

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  • Post published:February 1, 2026
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Stay at Home Girlfriends...A Thing? Recently, an article by Career Ms. (of whose work I’m a borderline obsessive reader) posted an article on Medium, entitled Stay-at-Home Girlfriends. Subtitle—So apparently, I’m…

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Why are Divorced Women So Angry? (Or are they?)

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  • Post published:July 3, 2025
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Twisted Love Recently, I ran across a post on Medium, an online magazine I subscribed to, entitled Why Are So Many Divorced Women So Angry? It was posted in one…

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Do We Really Suck This Bad?

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  • Post published:May 29, 2025
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On the Way Home From Good Will… Sometimes, unpleasant truth is unavoidable. Wanted or not, it can smack us squarely in the chops when we least expect it. Driving back…

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Dating & Mating Today

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Chasing Butterflies While the Elephants Get Away It's nothing new, really... Whatever would we do without the commentary on virtually all the online forums and chat rooms focused on relations…

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Like It Or Not, Collectively Trump is Our Guy

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  • Post published:November 10, 2024
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Time for Some Tough Love Like many others, I woke this morning to the news I was expecting by the time I went to bed, on election eve. Mr. Trump…

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Whiffing on What Really Matters?

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  • Post published:December 15, 2023
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We are as divided as we let ourselves be. I would love to say that U.S. citizens collectively can be relied on to reason from evidence to a thoughtful if…

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Men This, Women That…Blah, Blah, Blah…

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  • Post published:October 25, 2023
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Can we stop, already? Gender Polemics, anyone? There’s been a lot of back and forth on gender roles lately, on Medium, one of the online platforms to which I contribute.…

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Confronting Our Dual Nature

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  • Post published:September 30, 2023
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Humans...the rational animal? I don’t remember the first time I heard being human characterized as being “the rational animal.” Aristotle, it is said, argued that man is “a creature distinguished…

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We Sad Prisoners of Myth

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  • Post published:August 3, 2023
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One Man's Take on the Human Condition But first, a call-out to a fellow author…a while ago, I ran across a post on Medium. I found it thought-provoking enough to…

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Love-a term in need of explanation?

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  • Post published:July 9, 2023
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Is love not the gift we give ourselves...and each other? Relationships, Situationships and Slippery Love Prelude Recently, Dr. T.J. Jordan posted a thought-provoking article in Medium, an online magazine that I…

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