Author Archives
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Counter Intuitive, or Something Like That
“I don’t consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.” ― Leonard Cohen When my kids reached about nine years of age,… Read More ›
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Jelly Roll in the House.
“Random acts of kindness were certainly scarce in this place and sometimes came from the most unexpected source.” ― Kathryn Hughes, The Key I continually watch the aftermath of the shooting incident at Antioch High School with a sense… Read More ›
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You Kids Get Off My Damn Lawn
“Why do we have to make such terrible decisions for our whole lives when we are too young to know what we are doing? The big mistakes are hung around your neck and you have to wear them forever.” ―… Read More ›
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The Way You Do Anything, Is The Way You Do Everything
“Lift up the hem of verbiage, peek below its frillies – what’s exposed? the hairy truth?” ― Joshua Cohen, Book of Numbers According to WordPress, I’ve produced a thousand pieces since starting this blog nearly a decade ago. I’m not saying… Read More ›
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Talking Rhinos, Noteworthy State Bills, and School Security
“The horse is brown or chestnut or one of those other technical terms horsepeople use to make it clear that they know stuff other people don’t; the freemasonry of the hoof.” ― Nick Harkaway, The Gone-Away World Last night,… Read More ›
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Adults Say the Darndest Things
“Not for the first time Marianne thinks cruelty does not only hurt the victim, but the perpetrator also, and maybe more deeply and more permanently. You learn nothing very profound about yourself simply by being bullied; but by bullying someone… Read More ›
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TN Lawmakers Employ the Tush Push to Pass Voucher Legislation.
“I have known heaven, and now I am in hell, and there are mimes.” ― Nick Harkaway, The Gone-Away World I opened up one eye and squinted as I looked toward the window. Looks like the son was going… Read More ›
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School Board Glaze Amid Heartbreak
“Virtue was vanity dressed up and waiting for applause.” ― Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North I try to produce a new Dad Gone Wild piece every Friday. It’s important to have a schedule, but sometimes,… Read More ›
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We Got To Do Better
“Death cannot be experienced either by the dead or the living.” ― William T. Vollmann, Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means Wednesday morning I was working at home, at my desk. It’d been… Read More ›
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Heroes, Hypocrisy, and Hubris
“One of the grimmer realizations of Sarkis’s youth had been the discovery that knowing you were being an ass did not actually stop you from continuing to be an ass.” ― T. Kingfisher, Swordheart In September of 2021, middle… Read More ›
Dad Gone Wild 