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Archive for October 2018

an extraordinary machine

On 24 October 2018

This entry might be a surprise. But it probably is not. “Surprise” is a frame I kept using when telling friends and family that our child is transitioning genders—changing his name, his pronouns, his outer shell—to better match who he knows himself to be. “I have some news,” I’d say. “This may come as a […]

shrink! those! testicles!

On 10 October 2018

READING IS FUN-DAMENTAL I am a very half-hearted football watcher so far this season, but I sometimes hit up the subreddits or the non-terrible sports blogs to see what’s up, and I was briefly flummoxed while skimming a discussion about a player’s worthiness that kept using the term “pro bowler.” Pre-caffeine and without spoken inflection […]