Archive for Favorite/Important Entries
Gary Chapman’s five love languages paradigm categorizes the kinds of things that make people feel loved/valued. Here’s the original list: receiving gifts quality time words of affirmation acts of service physical touch I find this general paradigm useful—the idea that different people have different modes and approaches that make them feel valued—but I want to […]
[Note: This post is not in response to any particular instance; it’s about a longstanding pattern.] For many years, I’ve been seeing a certain specific kind of response to people expressing pain, and I’d like to respectfully ask people to think carefully about it before giving this particular kind of response. The pattern goes something […]
At some point in the early 1990s, I spoke with my college friend Alex on the phone, and was surprised that his voice had dropped in pitch by at least an octave since I had last talked with him. I think he told me something about having belatedly gone through puberty. It turned out that […]
A day of interesting-to-me insights and thoughts. But no time/energy to write them up in any detail, so a couple of notes-to-self as reminders (each of these could be a full entry in itself if I had time and if I were more awake): This morning, it suddenly occurred to me while I was driving […]
This is a pattern in my life: Someone tells me something. I don't agree with what they said, but I...
I recently had occasion to stop by Addiction is..., a collection of about fifteen nonfiction pieces that, individually and together,...
This post is something I've been meaning to write for years; I'm finally writing it as a starting point/background for...
Many years ago, Arthur E and I were driving somewhere, and we saw a spotlight sweeping back and forth across...
I noticed this pattern in myself a few years ago: I'll say something in email, or in a public post,...
As I noted a month ago, last August I filed a Freedom of Information request to get a copy of...
In which Jed tells the long version of his 1994 motorcycle accident.
In early 2009, there was a meme going around: post 25 random things about yourself. I thought about posting a...