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Favorite season

Posted on June 11, 2025 by smellincoffee

This one is interesting because my answer has changed over the years. At one point it would’ve been fall because “SUMMER IS OVER!”. However, the oldeer I get the more I realize Fall is increasingly “NATURE WANTS YOU DEAD” season. … Continue reading →

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Occupation to vocation

Posted on May 29, 2025 by smellincoffee

For someone my age, I have had surprisingly few jobs: over half my working life has been at the same place! I volunteered in the soundroom at my parent’s church as a teenager, though that doesn’t really count considering the … Continue reading →

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Boy meets CPU

Posted on February 1, 2025 by smellincoffee

I’m one of those Millennial kids whose childhood had a BC/AD split. I was more or less oblivious to computers in the early and mid-1990s: though they were present in our elementary classrooms, none of my teachers used them. I … Continue reading →

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Prompt: most memorable road trip

Posted on January 13, 2025 by smellincoffee

Oh, this is an easy one. New Mexico, 2016. Not only was it my first time on an airplane, and my first time out of the South, but it was my first time taking a vacation somewhere as an adult: … Continue reading →

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Thinking about occupations and vocations

Posted on October 24, 2024 by smellincoffee

I am not a career-oriented person: when I was younger, I didn’t have a driving ambition to Become Something other than a husband & father: a career was simply something I would’ve done to support that vocation. When I was … Continue reading →

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Debate Night 2024

Posted on September 10, 2024 by smellincoffee

I’m supposed to be watching two people who I don’t like or respect debate on who should be el presidente, but knowing I have no real say in the matter, I am choosing to listen to beautiful music instead. Here’s … Continue reading →

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What’s in a name?

Posted on August 21, 2024 by smellincoffee

When I first searched my name in high school, I saw “crown” and was quite pleased, but later I saw it meant “crown of martyrdom” I was raised in a devout Pentecostal home, and when I was born, they named … Continue reading →

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Minimalist awkwardness

Posted on June 25, 2024 by smellincoffee

….I wouldn’t notice and neither would my friends. I adopted a minimalist dress code years ago in which my t-shirts, underwear, and socks are all almost entirely black except in the case of some pre-code shirts/shorts that haven’t aged out … Continue reading →

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Between stimulus and response, there is a space

Posted on May 1, 2024 by smellincoffee

Nearly twenty years ago I stumbled upon Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, and the writings of the Stoics. I can’t tell you the exact story because too much time has passed: at the time I was not religious but had an inexplicable … Continue reading →

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How has technology changed your job?

Posted on March 26, 2024 by smellincoffee

Oh, good lord. Where to begin? As some of you may know, I’m a librarian — not an official Librarian because I’m still working on MLS, but I’ve worked for a library for twelve years as a local historian, IT … Continue reading →

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