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Shaken

Posted on July 19, 2021January 9, 2022 by Thomas Joseph Wilson

Environmental Control Usually, when you grow up with something, like a childhood of enjoying not-so-pleasant looking ripe bananas–speckled oxidation brown, far from a pristine green or yellow–it becomes normalcy, a state of comfort and not-surprise. It’s eating around the mold. It’s sleeping without worrying that your body will roll out of bed onto the floor….

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Alone at Whistling Arch

Posted on July 12, 2021January 9, 2022 by Thomas Joseph Wilson

The Fears That Bind Us Coming up any sort of stairs was my greatest childhood fear. Sure, I wouldn’t be happy about going down to a dark basement: I’d race for the lights and move slowly around corners. But, for some reason, I felt like going upstairs was like defying a monster’s plan, like you…

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Above the Bolt

Posted on April 29, 2021July 12, 2021 by Thomas Joseph Wilson

Made a YouTube video about rock climbing fall training:

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Emoting Whilst Driving Vehicles

Posted on March 14, 2021 by Thomas Joseph Wilson

Preamble In a 24 hour period over the course of the 26th and 27th of February, I was the victim of two forms of vehicular emoting. The first was the “daring” sort of vehicular emoting. Not quite the most one can do with anger whilst seat-belted in a moving vehicle, but an act that carried…

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The Lunch Walk

Posted on March 13, 2021January 9, 2022 by Thomas Joseph Wilson

The Industrial Nopes One of the reasons I became a teacher–and I know this is not what I should be saying–was so that I wouldn’t have to work in a cubicle. It was at the beginning of my teenagedom that I had suspected that the cubicle environment would not be my bag. I don’t remember…

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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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