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CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Good Carpenters
The rise of social media is seen by many as revolutionary, but the Minivan Centurion sees it as evolutionary. For him, it’s just another...
Dec 15, 2021


CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Meteorologist Jim
I’ve never been much interested in the weather. To be precise, it’s predictions of the weather that don’t interest me. When the weather...
Dec 8, 2021


CHAPTER TWELVE: Fat Ted
During the summer after my college graduation, I worked the door at an Irish bar in Hyannis Port on Cape Cod. Every night I would stand...
Nov 28, 2021


CHAPTER ELEVEN: The Middle
A healthy group is thick in The Middle and skinny at both ends. The ends are skinny because that is where the Orists are, and in a...
Nov 23, 2021


CHAPTER TEN: The Splitter
It is our nature as humans to unite into groups. We are driven to it by our internal desire for security and significance, and neither of...
Nov 17, 2021


CHAPTER NINE: Collision Learner
There are many ways to learn. Today, the dominant method is didactically, by way of the classroom setting. When my kids started...
Nov 10, 2021


CHAPTER EIGHT: Mister Vice
We have a tradition in the American military called the dining-in, where the officers in a unit (generally a battalion or brigade) put on...
Nov 3, 2021


CHAPTER SEVEN: Three Dots
The sonogram was not widely used to determine a baby’s gender until the ‘70s, so I doubt that my parents had the chance to see me in the...
Oct 27, 2021


CHAPTER SIX: Purposeful Mud
“Is there anyone here named Adam?” My pastor asked the congregation one day. “Nobody?” Apparently there wasn’t, because nobody said...
Oct 20, 2021
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