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Tag: Writing Life (Page 27)

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Can You Find Reason in Insanity?

Searching for the rational motive behind an insane act is a category error. Some acts have no reasons a sane mind can use.

A photographer directs a model during a portrait shoot, both appearing relaxed and comfortable with each other.

Photoshoots

Photoshoots were once the hardest thing I did. The camera pulled a painfully shy man out from behind a 90-foot concrete wall.

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Social Addictions

Claudia kicked years of prescription painkillers with a three-month placebo plan, and the lesson was about the social half of addiction.

A person with tattoos on their arm, representing the visible markers that trigger judgment and prejudice from others.

The Comments I Get…

Beaten daily for lunch money, teased for loving school, then watching desegregation arrive at an all-white junior high.

A person smiling, surrounded by friends at a celebration with music and dancers, marking a milestone birthday.

My Birthday

After decades of ignoring birthdays through Claudia's long illness, learning to celebrate one again at 52.

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Personal Growth

Oh My! What if Homosexuals Were Allowed to Marry?

A satirical 2012 response to marriage-equality panic: the sun has not exploded and other people's marriages remain their business.

A person gazing at the horizon or sky, reflecting on past expectations and future possibilities.

What I Expected from Life

The Berlin Wall fell, computers shrank onto my wrist, and the lunar colony never came. What a childhood's predictions got right and wrong.

A person standing in sunlight with arms open, facing away from shadows toward a bright horizon.

Living on the Bright Side of Life and Fears to Be Conquered

A Monty Python song, a painfully shy young man, and the long project of conquering the fear that people you love will hurt you.

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My Friend Vernon

A remembrance of Vernon: a good man, a great drummer, and one of the people who proved friendship could be safe.

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Memory and Identity

The Phoenix and the Dragon: The Story Behind My Tattoos

The story behind my phoenix and dragon tattoos: survival and rebirth.

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Stamp Collecting

How a free-stamps ad in a Ladies Home Journal grew into a collection of over 100,000 stamps, and what the hobby is really worth.

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Prejudice

Two essays written five years apart on growing up with prejudice in San Bernardino and unlearning it one friendship at a time.