Society
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An essay exploring my mother’s life and her Irish Catholic heritage, against the backdrop of Leon Uris’s 1976 novel Trinity. (In Merion West, 11/13/24)
My special needs brother’s obsession with the printed book. (6/16/22)
I’ve Fixed Facebook. You’re Welcome.
An open letter to Mark Zuckerberg first published Sept. 23, 2018 on the Deucerman at Random blog. (9/23/18, Republished 11/15/21)
Finding Home
1: Decisions, Decisions (8/11/21)
2: Santa Cruz (9/12/21)
3: Livermore (10/21/21)
Dispatches from our search for the right place to spend the rest of our lives, in 3 parts. (In The Shadow) (For what it’s worth, we landed in Livermore in February 2023.)
Privatize the Profit, Socialize the Pain
To deal with the challenge of social media, we’ll all have to suffer. (In The Shadow)
The Great Carta Blanca Heist of 1976
Teen-age hijinks and white privilege in the Santa Clara Valley. (In The Shadow) (1/25/21)
Careless misuse of a name marginalizes a storied history and an indispensable present. (1/20/21)