A life in words
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Five Albums from Years Ending In Five
For recent birthdays I’ve been selecting albums to represent years in my life. In the first installment, it was 1983, 1993, 2003, 2013, and 2023. The next installment, we incremented a year, so: 1984, 1994, 2004, etc. For this year, it was 1985, 1995, 2005, 2015, and 2024/2025 (an album released since my last birthday.)…
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City water caused my acid reflux; filtering eliminates it
For over a decade I’ve had on-and-off heartburn. But mostly it was no big deal—just one of those discontents of modernity—until a few years ago, when out of nowhere I started to have acid reflux. Not just any acid reflux—it was nasty. I’d wake up with pains shooting through my entire body. Or not be…
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Harris and class
First I’ll mention race: Harris’s ancestry is so mixed that in a sense it’s an error to assign her to any one of the traditional (and arbitrary) racial categories. She truly is a product of globalization of the gene pool, and is a taste of the inevitable future when Americans broadly have ancestors from all…