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What we might have said, if we had known in time

March 5, 2022by SFine Leave a comment

I’m worried, I said to my sister, half a country away. I am too, she said. I remember a news item, little commented upon, a little more than a month […]

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Bird's Eye View, but still uncomfortable, Essays, The Daily Write

“There, you will make your stand”

March 26, 2021by SFine Leave a comment

Truth is stranger than fiction, they say, and they are right, at least sometimes. I know someone struck by lightning three times. Two of America’s Founding Fathers died on July […]

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Bird's Eye View, but still uncomfortable, Essays, The Daily Write

The death of the Easter bunny

April 12, 2020by SFine Leave a comment

I’ve heard the saying ‘Give me a child before age 5, I’ll give you a Catholic forever’ and it’s true Catholicism has a certain stickiness, something I’ve personally attributed to […]

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Bird's Eye View, but still uncomfortable, Essays, growing up midwestern, The Daily Write

A poem for the end of the world

November 26, 2019by SFine 3 Comments

We burned the koalas out of existence; they screamed loudly as they died, but that wasn’t enough to make us stop. The whales we choked with plastic were more silent, […]

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Bird's Eye View, but still uncomfortable, Poetry, The Daily Write

Obituary

October 18, 2019by SFine Leave a comment

I read your obituary and it was awful, basically just a long list of names, some of people that you hardly ever saw, much less knew you liked strawberry ice […]

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Bird's Eye View, but still uncomfortable, flash, not horror, but still uncomfortable, Short Fiction, The Daily Write

Bluegrass and the Random Wonderful

October 8, 2019by SFine Leave a comment

I tend to avoid crowds successfully enough that I forget how being in one can so easily restore my optimism. One of the best things about San Francisco is Hardly […]

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Bird's Eye View, but still uncomfortable, growing up midwestern, love, not horror, reflections

Birthday Apocalyptica

September 21, 2019by SFine 4 Comments

I saw it was your birthday so I bought this card and felt the need to write a note in it – something beyond Happy birthday. Like, how I saw on the news that the hills are on fire again and five more species have been declared extinct and another glacier melted.

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Bird's Eye View, but still uncomfortable, climate, not horror, not horror, but still uncomfortable, reflections

This is why we impeach

June 30, 2019by SFine Leave a comment

Last year at the Oslo Freedom Forum, a man named Fred Warmbier took the stage. It was a bit strange to see a middle aged white American male on that […]

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Bird's Eye View, but still uncomfortable, Essays, The Daily Write

Imagine.

April 21, 2019by SFine Leave a comment

Many political candidates are asking us to imagine a very different future than the species has ever confronted. From Andrew Yang’s pitch for UBI in a world where the biggest […]

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Bird's Eye View, but still uncomfortable

One Funeral At a Time

April 7, 2019by SFine 2 Comments

Humans are diminishing the Earth’s resources far faster than nature or technology can possibly replace them. We can stop, anytime. But it seems we won’t, not without a revolution. I […]

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Bird's Eye View, but still uncomfortable, Essays, not horror

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