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Aging giddily
In which our hero gets Botox
Sep 1, 2023
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May 2023
Role Playing
A few days ago we were eating at our local breakfast taco place when the Brooks & Dunn song “Neon Moon” (1991) came on and I remembered with a start…
May 23, 2023
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January 2023
The Idea of Permanence
A few weeks ago and with absolutely no context, Beatrice (who goes by Apollo now) ran up to me and said, “I can’t believe you threw me into the pool…
Jan 1, 2023
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October 2022
The Unreal History of Halloween
Unruly Teenagers, Realistic Woodchippers, and the Restless Dead
Oct 20, 2022
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The Unreal History of Halloween
Magical Kale, Teen Romance, and the Truth About Halloween Fortune-Telling
Oct 10, 2022
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September 2022
The Unreal History of Halloween
The Singular Story of Samhain
Sep 29, 2022
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The Unreal History of Halloween
Tim Burton, Bob Burns, and Home Haunters
Sep 13, 2022
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It's haunt season and you know what that means
As most of you know, I’ve been working on a book about Halloween off and on for the last several years. As part of motivating myself to finish the…
Sep 8, 2022
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August 2022
Back to School
Today Beatrice, Arthur, and William went back to school, to grades 8, 6, and 3, respectively. I went back to school, too. Though my classes at Claremont…
Aug 16, 2022
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April 2022
But Enough About Me; Or, the Ethics of Analogy
This is my 40th newsletter! Check out some of the old letters in the archives, I’ve linked to a few of my favorites below. Also, this summer I’ll be…
Apr 21, 2022
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March 2022
Don’t Touch the Butterfly, or How To Disappear
This year the elementary school variety show is going virtual. Instead of piling into the school auditorium as we did before the pandemic, parents may…
Mar 4, 2022
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January 2022
Fundamental Event Elements; Big, Bad Ideas; and Being Open to The Experience
This year Halloween landed, for me, in the hiatus between (adult) vaccinations and new variants when I felt briefly okay-ish about going places, and so…
Jan 1, 2022
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