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Open Bar: Seven Missing Dimensions

Subtlety and humility are not characteristics of this age.  Turned up to eleven at all times, we could probably use…
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Open Bar: Culinary Transportation

Stealthily, the plate is placed in front of me and just as swiftly, I am elsewhere.  The warmth emanating from…
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Open Bar: Dreaming of a Life’s Work

On the drive up the hill for family dinner, Violet and I had a mock argument, one set several years…
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Open Bar: Seeking The Correct Combination

Predestination never enthused me as a concept:  abdicating responsibility for the course of my life is anathema to the control…
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Open Bar: Binary Bumbling…And The Third Option

Society craves categorization, wants a convenient way to distill complex concepts into easily digestible labels.  Humans also require certainty as…
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Open Bar: Guerilla Tactics

The early morning fog hung heavily upon the expanse, presaging the cannon exhaust that was soon to come.  Fifes and…
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Open Bar: The Circle Remains Unbroken

The tiles were full of animation, of expectation, of elation.  A new baby, a cherubic girl, had joined the tribe. …
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Open Bar: When The End Comes

The machines beeped and whirred and annoyed, cicadas of the only field that she had known for longer than she…
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Open Bar: Don’t Be Stupid, Be Silly

Shenanigans abound as we round out the ski season.  The pageantry, the plumage, the peanut butter, the potent potables, they…
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Open Bar: The Dingbat Industrial Complex

As Pepi took his fabled powder run down the interminable slope that now reflects his apocryphal exclamation, he could not…
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