Anxiety… Make It Make Sense 29 Jun 2022 Trigger warning: everything Born in the 1980s and mostly a child of the 1990s, I remember a distinct vibe echoed in a line from Steve Carell's character Michael Scott: "The…
#HeForShe… A Traditionally Masculine Question About Gender 15 Mar 2022 We're doing things a little differently today. Normally with this blog I attempt to share opinion and experience (alongside any expertise that I can). That's why I focus on aspects…
Social Contract Victory Defeated US: How Winning Became the Ultimate American Problem 7 Jan 2021 I am not much of a Republican or a Democrat. My ideology is at times offensive to both party lines and so I could not imagine success representing Americans with…
Social Contract Thumbs Up, America 7 Nov 2020 Sorry, friends. I am going to be a downer today. I mean, I'm a downer every day but I try to take measures to conceal that from others. Those closest…
Social Contract My Truth and The Truth 28 Sep 2020 We are currently attending a training through work that discusses multiple aspects of communication. One of the concepts that arose during the training is the need for people to speak…
Personal… The Fog of War 23 Sep 2020 We face a lot of problems today. Some are holdovers from prior generations, others are unique to the modern world. A major part of me still believes that people, in…
Social Contract Definitions and Labels 31 Aug 2020 I felt compelled to write today based on two events. First, the #IStandWithJK hashtag reappeared on social media, and it brought up discussion about one of her tweets in particular:…
Personal… Another Appeal Against Late-Stage Capitalism 20 Aug 2020 In the past I have tried to dance around the language of economics a bit. Any critique of capitalism seems to confirm that the critic is a Marxist/socialist/communist. The philosopher…
Social Contract Dunning-Kruger Is My Middle Name: Empathy, Knowing How Much I Don’t Know, and Struggling in a World of “Experts” 8 Jul 2020 Where even to start? There is the mask requirement debate or the "Karen" response or the even broader state of discourse. There is the snowflake versus the deplorable. There is…
Social Contract Children Are Not the Future 7 Jun 20208 Jun 2020 Earn good grades and stay out of trouble. That gets you into a good college. Do well in college. That gets you a good job; ideally, it gets you a…
Celtic Riverside 