This isn’t as much an Open Tabs post as it a tidying up one, which is what I feel the past month has been, an …
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Open Tabs: Fairy Tale Violence, Data-Visualized Fighting
As I write, Amy is settling down for a nap after a Roald Dahl poem about a gun-toting Red Riding Hood. Last night she asked …
Open Tabs: Inuit discipline, Mary-darkness, sweetness and light
I have this peculiar habit of keeping articles I like re-reading open in my mobile browser until I tire of them. I used to bookmark …
Still
While looking for songs to add to Amy’s playlist, I learned that Discovery Channel remade their Boom De Yada ad for 2020: “The World Is …
Silly wrong but vivid right*
Today marks two weeks of the newborn daze. Perhaps it’s the oxytocin, perhaps the three blessed hours of sleep last night—whatever it is, we’ve caught …
Sanity by way of routine
Eleven years ago, I was working with a children’s foundation in Coron, and one thing I learned there stuck with me: routine calms anxiety. I …
Taking the scenic route
The stock-taking today ended three hours earlier than I thought it would, so on a whim I hopped on a jeep to Cubao to… I …
The luxury of a pause
If it seems like 50% of the time I’m posting here, I’m sick, well, yes. I’m midway through my antibiotic course (responsibly, of course, wouldn’t …
The political is personal
I don’t enjoy writing about politics in the Philippines because (a) I find it exhausting (b) there are other things in my locus of concern …
Bearings
So it seems I’m forced to take stock of where I am, by this flu-ish virus. Four people in this household are down with the …