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Managed Care

I grew up in a family that was doctor-averse.  They weren’t anti-vax, anti-science, ideological weirdos. But it was complicated. Depression-era frugality led to most of  my parents’  “I’ve seen worse” responses to childhood lacerations and stomach viruses experienced by me and my three siblings. But my parents’ aversion to paying for medical treatment also was…

April 25, 2021April 25, 2021

Angry Weather

February 16, 2021, 32nd and Speedway streets, Austin, Texas A year into a global pandemic, I’ve developed an anger management problem.  It’s not my feral, uncut hair, or the strange substitutions that Randall’s makes in my grocery order. My god, half a million of my fellow citizens no longer have the luxury of caring about…

March 23, 2021April 4, 2021

The README FILE

In this perfect world of my imagining, mothers and/or fathers would be bound by the laws of god and nature to provide children with a README file for their well-meaning but fucked-up parents.

March 13, 2021March 13, 2021