Feb 12Member-onlyOn Political Alignment as a “Verb”Honestly, I need to get back into the habit of using my Medium blog, if only for unresearched thought dumps. I was thinking about my outlier status as someone whose politics is more that of a verb than a noun or adjective. I used to “be” conservative, for example, and…Politics3 min readPolitics3 min read
Mar 4, 2022Member-onlyA Moment of Liminal StillnessThese past few weeks — though they seem to have stopped lately — I’ve been having these dreams of being in a hotel room that I had come to think of as a permanent home, frantically packing my bags and looking for random items under beds and furniture the same…Reflections3 min readReflections3 min read
Feb 3, 2022Seeing the Sunlight on Parked CarsThe older I get, the less time I find I have for abstractions. As a kid and teenager, I read all sorts of books on ghosts, UFOs, aliens, ESP and such. It was the late 80s and early 90s, the era of “The X Files”, and the widespread New Age…Ancestry6 min readAncestry6 min read
Jan 16, 2022Member-onlyEffervescence: Fueled by GratitudeNote: This is a copy of the blog I submitted to the Hamilton HIVE network to promote the 2022 STEEL Conference. This blog contains motivational elements that have the potential to impact mental health conditions such as anxiety and depression. This is neither medical nor mental health advice. …Entrepreneurship4 min readEntrepreneurship4 min read
Jan 7, 2022Member-onlyAre We Actually Nostalgic for 2020?There’s a peculiar thing in the air right now in my tiny corner of Ontario, Canada, just a couple of days into the new lockdown. I’m seeing it as a peculiar nostalgia for the original lockdown, 22 months ago. This isn’t something that’s overtly spoken on the social media posts…Ontario3 min readOntario3 min read
Jan 5, 2022Member-onlyMaking Sense of Stuff During Ontario’s 2022 Pseudo-LockdownMy brain’s been mush all week and it’s barely been half a day since Ontario’s latest step in the Pandemic Containment Rumba started. Coping right now looks like me trying to find solid answers to hold onto. Very few of them are making it through my cognitive filter right now…20229 min read20229 min read
Jan 4, 2022Member-only2022 and Our Relationship with the Unknown and UnknowableOutside, it’s sub-zero and sunny as I start this. A New Year’s Day snowfall has left my little town looking more like it should at this time of year. The ice is frozen on the sidewalks and roads: that’s been a rare occurrence during the green Christmas just passed. Once…New Year6 min readNew Year6 min read
Dec 21, 2021Member-onlyThe Millennial Generational MissionMillennials started turning 40 in 2020, just in time for the COVID-19 Pandemic. (It figures). As of this writing, it’s showing precisely zero signs of going away anytime soon, and even if the virus itself is eradicated, its ripple effects will continue to stay with us for a long time. …Millennials3 min readMillennials3 min read
Jul 19, 2021Review: “Roadrunner” Shatters Everything We’ve Projected Onto Anthony Bourdain*SPOILERS AHEAD* Roadrunner is the first movie I’ve seen in theatres since the Pandemic arrived to blow all of our shit up. I’m happy that I went, out of my own interest, but also out of a familiar concern about “spoilers” that my own lizard brain, acclimated as it is…Anthony Bourdain8 min readAnthony Bourdain8 min read
Jan 13, 2021Reflections On Being Banned by Facebook For No Good ReasonAs I write this, I’m going on three weeks since my OG Facebook account was closed down. I say “OG” because I was one of the earlier adopters of the platform back in 2006, when it was still only open to university students (in fact, my original login is my…Facebook5 min readFacebook5 min read
