Looking at My Son Upside-Down

On the clichés of parenthood

Jan 13

15

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November 2025

Closing Time

Living forever, or maybe not.

Nov 15, 2025

19

2

August 2025

Popular Writing Advice That's Actually Bad

Tell don't show, write what you don't know, and let those darlings live.

Aug 21, 2025

30

4

Drugs Should Be Illegal Because Buying Them in Stores Is Lame

We traded rebellion for retail and now everything is worse.

Aug 3, 2025

51

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June 2025

Sketches from Parenthood, Months 2–6

Parenthood fears and the true meaning of commitment. Also, the time DMB's tour bus dumped 800 pounds of poop onto an open-top boat.

Jun 17, 2025

19

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May 2025

Things I Learned from The Idea Factory

Fun facts about Bell Labs, midcentury American businesses, and the device formerly known as "stimulated emission."

May 21, 2025

16

April 2025

Missionary Impossible

Ross Douthat tries and fails to turn me religious

Apr 4, 2025

11

March 2025

A Few of My More Humiliating First Date Mishaps

100% true stories from my single days.

Mar 12, 2025

21

2

February 2025

God Bites Man

How I kinda, sorta, maybe stopped being an atheist

Feb 21, 2025

25

2

January 2025

Another Twelve Months I’ll Never Get Back

2024 in review and “resolutions” for 2025

Jan 3, 2025

36

4

December 2024

Sketches from Parenthood, Days 1–30

Hello from the other side.

Dec 28, 2024

31

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The Best (Or Maybe Just Most Top of Mind) Things I Read in 2024

Various arrangements of words that stuck with me this year.

Dec 5, 2024

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