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To Heal its Rural-Urban Divide, America Needs A National ‘Trading Places Day’

The rural-urban divide in America is real, and it’s getting worse. That’s why we need a national “Trading Places Day.”

3 min readNov 27, 2023

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To Heal its Rural-Urban Divide, America Needs A National ‘Trading Places Day’

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Criteria for determining whether you are an adult

An (incomplete) list of criteria that seem to indicate adulthood, which I’ve organized into pro (for adulthood) and con (against…

2 min readJan 24, 2024

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Criteria for determining whether you are an adult

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What Matters Most Is What We Leave Behind, Like a New Furnace And AC

In the end you can’t take things or ex-girlfriends with you, in part because your ex-girlfriends are married now

4 min readMay 2, 2024

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an empty bench under a tree overlooking foggy countryside

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Bury me under the pyramid

When your dentist tells you to go see your doctor immediately, you know you’ve made poor life choices.

2 min readApr 19, 2024

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Colorful diced fruit including oranges, grapefruit, and pomegrante

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Digital Global Traveler

And So We Come To The End

After three months living and working from an RV, a writer reflects on what he’s seen — and what it means.

4 min readApr 5, 2024

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And So We Come To The End

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The National Parks: ‘You won’t be able to see it all even if you live to be 100, which you won’t’

There’s just too much beauty packed into our planet for one person to see it all, which is why there are so many of us.

5 min readMar 27, 2024

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The National Parks: ‘You won’t be able to see it all even if you live to be 100, which you won’t’

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A Traveler’s Discontent: The Midwest Winter That Never Was

The suffering of my friends and the whole of Midwest would increase my enjoyment of the warmer climes I currently inhabit.

3 min readMar 23, 2024

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A sunset and a saguaro cactus

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The most temporary of roads and a mustache of menace

Tragedy had struck at the campground, or, at least what passes for tragedy when not much is happening.

5 min readMar 18, 2024

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The most temporary of roads and a mustache of menace

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Medium Pub Craw: I’ll be there, kind of

hat if we solidified our digital world by showing up in our physical one?

2 min readMar 18, 2024

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a shadow waves to a sagurao cactus

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Bouncin’ and Behavin’ Poems

Girbly Snurf

I thought of titling this poem “Syllabic Rhythm as Image,” and that’s what it is for me.

1 min readMar 16, 2024

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Adam Overland

Adam Overland

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Minneapolis. New here in '23. I've written humor columns for 3 print publications, so naturally that's dead and here I am. Also write for a research university.

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