No Politics Around the Campfire

JC/ July 15, 2025/ biography

In late September 2002, on a campground in Southwestern New Hampshire, United States I sat around a small fire in the woods with some of my best friends. We all met for the first time 5 years prior. We bonded over live music, and pro-wrestling. Our host’s brother in-law, a self-avowed nazi, was joining for the weekend. Dennis, the self-avowed

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Fear, Loneliness, and Your Neighborhood

JC/ June 17, 2025/ biography

I have cut drivers off who are just trying to merge into traffic. I have walked into buildings and not held the door open for the person behind me.  I have emptied my shopping cart and not put the cart in the “return cart here” coral. I have examined apples in the produce section without being welcoming to the others

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