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Spouse, parent, teacher, writer. Opinions are my own, of course. https://cschillig.blogspot.com/
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The President wants to use the military to crack down on Americans who are exercising their 1st Amendment rights to oppose him. I can’t think of a better reason to insist on exercising those rights.
October 29, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Not exactly an existential crisis, but still a burning question.
When the heck does fall really start?
A change of seasons is more emotional than astronomical
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September 18, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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August 28, 2025 at 9:04 PM
What comedian Nate Bargatze teaches us about practice.

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The effort behind effortlessness
Being impromptu requires careful planning
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August 18, 2025 at 12:04 AM
The succinct takeaway from the Trump/Putin meeting in Alaska seems to be “nothing burger.”
August 15, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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If we only wish to laud the perfect, very soon we will have none to laud at all. People are messy, complex, self-contradictory, sacks of chemicals from the very best to the very worst. To seek heroes as champions is to forever be disappointed. Take wins where you find them, increments matter.
August 14, 2025 at 11:09 PM
If you're an educator, have you ever had a teacher dream? Or, if you're in another profession, what tips your sleep cycle into the nightmare zone?

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Teacher dreams
What tips an educator's sleep cycle into the nightmare zone?
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August 14, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Some thoughts on the end of summer:

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a bulldog wearing sunglasses and a life jacket is riding a jet ski .
ALT: a bulldog wearing sunglasses and a life jacket is riding a jet ski .
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August 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Weaponizing ICE indiscriminately.
Military takeovers of cities.
Destroying vaccine records.
Hiding job numbers.
Concealing child trafficking files.

Again, good people don't support him.

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No, Good People Don't Still Support Him
Everyone believes they're essentially a good human being.
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August 12, 2025 at 6:35 PM
New Avatar trailer reignites old discussion about inspiration vs. theft. Click to read …

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Inspiration or theft?
The answer isn't always obvious
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August 8, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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💯.
August 4, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Just watched a driver lock his convertible while the top was down. Is this standard?
August 3, 2025 at 10:52 PM
July 31, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive
― James Baldwin

Night 💚📖
July 30, 2025 at 3:24 AM
How much will we pay for that upgrade?(Tom Petty was right)

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How much will we pay for that upgrade?
Tom Petty, as usual, was right
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July 28, 2025 at 4:44 PM
The new Fantastic Four film nailed it! Great movie with lots of heart.
a group of fantastic four standing on a stage in front of a kepler logo
ALT: a group of fantastic four standing on a stage in front of a kepler logo
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July 26, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Today, Emmett Till would be 84. I wrote a little about him in my chapter in “Desegregating Comics”. A photo in the Chicago Defender showed the bed he and his cousin were in on the night Till was kidnapped. The sheets are rumpled and the foot of the bed is covered in comic books and newspapers. 1/5
July 25, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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This is worth a watch. She is spot on.
July 20, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Got an upgrade to first class and realized I’m not accustomed to nice things. I broke the table on the chair right off.
July 19, 2025 at 10:35 AM
How does JD Vance know what Trump was allegedly writing or drawing in 2003? Vance was still in his teens and hardly in Trump’s orbit.
July 18, 2025 at 1:42 AM
“I never wrote a picture in my life.”

I, too, have never written a picture. Guess Trump and I have that in common. 🙄
July 18, 2025 at 1:38 AM
A summer of running, writing, and thinking about both

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July 15, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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July 15, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Superman has always been woke

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Superman has always been 'woke'
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July 11, 2025 at 5:07 PM