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Why Should a Woman Buying Herself Diamonds Be Any More Surprising Than a Man Buying Them for Her?

November was a milestone month for me. I turned sixty-five, and I celebrated my first anniversary of going to the gym regularly. For the…

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Oct 28

Small Business Is Not A Charity

Spend much time on a community discussion forum like Nextdoor, and you’ll eventually encounter a familiar exchange. Someone complains about…

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Sep 15

Do the People in Your Life Want You?

Or Do They Want the Version of You That Asks Nothing of Them?

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Aug 25

The Surprising Origins of What We Revere

How Fabric Shortages, Movie Studios, and Dead Committees Determined What We Fight Over

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Aug 2

We Fixed It Until It Broke: How Expert Intervention Created the Obesity Crisis

When we treat heroin addiction, we don’t prescribe smaller doses and encourage more willpower. We don’t tell the addict to keep using, just…

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Jul 16

Aging in America: How We’ve Normalized Frailty and Chronic Disease in the Elderly

In America, aging has a familiar shape. The gradual slowing down, the accumulating aches and pains, the growing list of medications, the…

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Jul 12

Feeling Good, Doing Worse

The Cost of Comfort

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Jul 4

Religion Is Not Harmless

What “Love Thy Neighbor” Left Out

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Jul 1

The Machinery of Belief

From the Medieval Church to the Digital Age

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Jun 27

Good Intentions, Wrong Solutions: The Native Plant Movement

Every fall, the Monarch butterflies come through the Central California coast on their way to their overwintering grounds at places like…

Alexandra V.

Alexandra V.

A retired federal IT professional on the West Coast, writing about reasoning, systems, and the gap between how things work and how they're supposed to work.

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