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Temporary Bones

Posted on March 4, 2021January 9, 2022 by Thomas Joseph Wilson

If one deigns to walk in a park in Ohio during the winter, you will plot a course through temporary bones. You will find temporary bones reaching every which way: reaching toward the water, the sky, toward other bones, toward the ground, toward you. Your journey will not be without classification issues. There are temporary…

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Fuddy Duddyism: Learning That You Might Not Like RPGs Anymore

Posted on January 12, 2021 by Thomas Joseph Wilson

I. Here I was, in the blizzarded-out mountains of Colorado in the 1800s, navigating a horse to some sort of hunting ground to score some deer for our starving party. A non-player character (NPC) made small talk with me while the game tried to clue me on things that it had already taught about riding…

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Know Thyself

Posted on November 13, 2020 by Thomas Joseph Wilson

The Phenomenon Let’s say you and some other smartphone owners have happened upon the topic of sanitary napkins. Sure, a niche topic, but we often happen unexpectedly on conversations about improving our daily tools: Tools are our species’s super powers. Anyway, someone in the group has found a new tissue brand that just owns, trounces…

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I Am Not a Hoarder; I Am a Hoarder

Posted on November 5, 2020July 12, 2021 by Thomas Joseph Wilson

My wife spread her arms as if to point out something egregious, something obvious and no-duh-ish. Her arms seemed to be indicating our living room. I scanned it. Nothing was amiss. I squinted. This was my way of letting her continue. “Your books,” she said. “Don’t you think this is hoarding? How many have you…

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SARS-CoV-2 and the Extension of Space

Posted on July 13, 2020July 14, 2020 by Thomas Joseph Wilson

And, So, SARS-CoV-2 When we began our lockdown, many of us felt hemmed in with no space. We were relegated to our homes, and when we did leave, it was with a healthy dose of fear, a bottle of hand-sanitizer (if you were fortunate enough), and a homemade mask. But in this unwanted era, this…

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Retail and Idealism

Posted on January 26, 2020May 16, 2020 by Thomas Joseph Wilson

Working and College Like any American, I have my consumerist bent on worldly things, and while my time and focus was on college, I wanted to work a life sustaining job while surrounded with things I had a kinship with: books and computers. And like an idealistic ninny, I chose to work at a bookstore,…

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Midwesterners in an Arizona Blizzard

Posted on November 6, 2019May 16, 2020 by Thomas Joseph Wilson

Driving Opinions People really like to declare a city of drivers terrible. You’ve heard it, “People drive like [insert parts of speech here] around here.” The metric always changes. And I guess I can see a sort of difference in New York City drivers versus Cincinnati drivers, but Nashville versus Cincinnati? St. Louis versus Houston?…

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Lions and Lions and Lions

Posted on September 25, 2019May 16, 2020 by Thomas Joseph Wilson

“There,” our tour guide said. I skimmed my eyes through the yellow grass, long and swirling still even with the absence of wind. We plodded closer and in looking so close, I could see how this could resemble American prairie, the lighter color of autumn covering much vastness. Then blotches of what was flattened grass…

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The Wolf Sanctuary and Empathy

Posted on July 13, 2019May 16, 2020 by Thomas Joseph Wilson

“You must be asking yourself why I’m not in the enclosure with the wolves like the other conservationists,” the gentleman, an elder in age, said into the microphone. “It’s quite simple. I might not make it out.” You wouldn’t think West Lafayette, Indiana, home of Purdue University and many, many cornfields, would be a place…

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Let’s Say Slideshows Are Bad for Teaching and See What We Have

Posted on June 26, 2019May 16, 2020 by Thomas Joseph Wilson

I. The Good Of Slideshows I’m in essay grading mode. That means I’m living and breathing essays. I’m reading and reading and commenting and commenting. It’s a lot: like 151 essays a lot. In this mode, my planning bell where I have been given time to “plan” is now my “grading” bell. My sleep patterns…

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