From “Chad” to “Slop”; How Society Has Evolved
Each year, the American Dialect Society chooses one word to represent the Zeitgeist of that year. If you line the words up and look at them, they…
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The Nation Without a Land
A nation is more than a place on a map. It is a shared story, a common allegiance, a belief in something that binds its people together.…
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Short Essays Collection # 4
Humans Humans have always been shitty. Now we’re just shitty – at scale. What is Left As I continue to work my way through The Good Doctor,…
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Swimming the Mississippi of Life
Sometimes I think living in this world is like floating down the Mississippi River. You didn’t choose the river. You didn’t choose the century. You didn’t choose…
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Comfort, Conviction, and the Line in the Sand
A couple of years ago, there was this idea of “quiet quitting.” It was a trend where people would show up for work but do the absolute…
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Mutually One-Way
I started exploring this subject with the following short essay… Parasocial Relationships I heard someone mention this word recently, and I thought it was interesting. “Para,” in…