I’ve been a Star Trek fan and a space exploration enthusiast ever since I was a kid. My career as an aerospace engineer is in large measure attributable to these passions, which were refracted kaleidoscopically through each other until it was practically impossible to tease them apart. In the mind of my twelve-year-old self, spendingContinue reading “Ahead Full Impulse Power”
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When We Fight About What Jesus Would Do
I heard a sermon once a few years ago, in a United Methodist congregation that was living in a state of unacknowledged denial about the depth of division within that congregation, within the United Methodist Church, and within the United States writ large. Something about the sermon didn’t sit right with me, and in dueContinue reading “When We Fight About What Jesus Would Do”
Going to Extremes
An original poem. the first thinga child learns in the kitchenis that the stove is hotso, so hottoo hotdon’t touchnever touch living in the desertyou get used to the heat,which is to say that in July you get used to opening the front door like opening the oven doorand changing your mindabout leaving the houseat all toContinue reading “Going to Extremes”
Brief Thoughts on Gender
“Masculine” and “feminine” provide a script that says, here are the social roles you perform, here are the family roles you perform, here’s the power and respect you get (or don’t), and here’s a grab-bag of gender-linked personality/hobby/skill things you get to choose from to finish filling out your character sheet in the RPG ofContinue reading “Brief Thoughts on Gender”
Thoughts of Rob 