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Published in Tell Your Story

·Apr 24, 2021

The Train to Roma

It was nearly midnight when I got off the train in Milan. I had made it all the way up to Denmark during my spring break from studying in Rome but now I was heading back. I had hitchhiked south through Germany, but the rides had been short. Rather than…

Travel

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The Train to Roma
The Train to Roma

Apr 12, 2021

Kermit Skromme

Forty-four years after I graduated from high school, I heard that one of my favorite teachers was not doing well. I was able to find an email address for his daughter. This is an edited and digested form of the letter I sent to her, for her to read to…

Shakespeare

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Kermit Skromme
Kermit Skromme

Jan 20, 2021

Jesse Had a Wife

By Daniel McCoy “Jim! Danny! You better get up! You don’t want to be late for school!” My mom is holding the bedroom door half open and calling from the hallway. She had called us a few minutes earlier, but both my brother Jim and I had drifted back off to…

Suicide

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Jesse Had a Wife
Jesse Had a Wife

Jul 17, 2020

It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble.

I do love a good Mark Twain quote. “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” One thing I really love about that quote is how it kind of spirals in on itself if you try to…

Certainty

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It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble.
It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble.

Jun 27, 2020

Mr. Gilmore

With all of the talk of race, I’ve been thinking a lot about my experience growing up in San Jose, California, back when San Jose was known for orchards instead of silicon and software. Most of San Jose, and certainly the part I grew up in, was pretty white. The…

Raceinamerica

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Mr. Gilmore
Mr. Gilmore

May 13, 2020

What did George Washington want for his country?

I recently saw an ad for some slogan t-shirts and one particular slogan caught my eye. It was a quote attributed to George Washington that I wasn’t familiar with:

George Washington

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What did George Washington want for his country?
What did George Washington want for his country?

Aug 23, 2018

What’s Right? What’s Left? What Works?

There have been many essays about problems with the old left vs. right political paradigm. I’d like to attempt a view from a higher altitude than usual and hope it might lead to some useful insights. In recent years I’ve begun to see many problems in terms of humankind’s tendency…

Economics

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What’s Right? What’s Left? What Works?
What’s Right? What’s Left? What Works?

Mar 3, 2018

Eleanor

On July 23rd, 1926, a baby girl was born in the little town of Los Banos, California to Francis and Tillie McDonald. The addition of little Eleanor Lois made the McDonald family come out even, three boys and three girls: Roy, Lula, Buck, Jim, Molly Jean, and now, baby Eleanor…

Family

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Eleanor
Eleanor

May 19, 2016

The Emerald City

It’s not every day that I connect Buddhism and L. Frank Baum, so I thought I would write this one down. The connection began recently when a friend posted this quote on Facebook: “What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life…

Buddhism

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The Emerald City
The Emerald City

Published in The Policy

·May 13, 2016

The Story of Money

We understand the world through stories. Many stories are buried so deeply in our way of seeing the world that they are not obvious to us and it takes some mental work to expose them and see that they are stories rather than objective reality. …

Economics

8 min read

The Story of Money
The Story of Money
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