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Jesus of the Sweaty Gym Bag

I’ve used this health club ID many times a week for the last four years but only today noticed this strange figure in the background of my photo. I know it ain’t Christ-in-a-tortilla, but I may have a supernatural totem on my hands here. Do I go to the archdiocese or eBay?

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Staring out from my new workspace this week I realized I was looking at Ellis Island in New York Harbor, the first American soil my great-grandparents stepped foot on 123 years ago. My son wryly noted that this means the average Tolva generational velocity is zero. This is mathematically true, though my actual distance covered personally […]

Shiver Me Timbers

Prefer to listen to this post? (It’s really me, not AI!) Greetings travelers! Do you remember what you were doing on September 19 last year? Perhaps, like me, you were avoiding any co-worker, friend, or family member enthralled by the very 1990’s Talk Like a Pirate Day parody holiday. You know these people, texting you […]

Intolerable calamities

Walked through one of the four cemeteries in my neighborhood today. Among many heroes of the American Revolutionary War interred here is Reverend Moses Mather. He served as a Patriot in the war, but is most remembered for being snatched out of his church mid-sermon by the British and imprisoned on Long Island for many […]

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