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Semester’s End… Again

Getting a spike in student emails at the end of the semester, right when the “big things” are coming due, is nothing new. It happens every…

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Constitutional Crisis?

I have remained silent on all my anti-social media platforms. As much as I have wanted to respond, correct, engage and persuade, I have…

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Dog People

One of the great injustices in life is that the average human lifespan is so much longer than that of the average dog. For those of us who…

Dec 30, 2021

Dog People

Dec 30, 2021

Home Again — Redux

My hometown high school in Los Altos was part of a three-school district called the Mountain View Los Altos Union High School District…

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Home Again — Redux

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I read your first entry, one that came through in my "Medium Digest" today ("These 5 Subtle...")

I can relate to not only your experience in sobriety (I just celebrated 20 years last August), but I also recognize the exuberance and…

Nov 18

Nov 18

I made the mistake of reading a couple of recovery related articles on Medium and now the algorithm…

Almost. First things first (another cliche, but in this case accurate), what you are calling "gaslighting" is barely that, if at all. Those…

Nov 10

Nov 10

This is now the second story of yours that the algorithm has directed me to.

Okay. Let's say you are successful, you have convinced us - all of us; all however many billions of us there are now all believe you, there…

Oct 28

Oct 28

Really? As though it has a mind of it's own...

I don't really care how people want to get to functional lives once they have made a mess of them - I know how I did it and have lived for…

Oct 23

Oct 23

It's not just more formal spiritual movements, but informal ones as well.

As a result, the "unity" the fellowships say they depend on is challenged by the cliques these narcissists create. And guess what? Yep…

Oct 13

Oct 13

This was written 11 days ago, so hopefully you now have almost 11 weeks of sobriety.

I know, I know, you hit rock bottom this time, you're doing it differently this time, it's for different reasons this time, etc., etc…

Sep 22

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Michael Althouse

Michael Althouse

Lecturer/professor of communication studies at California State University, Sacramento. www.michaelalthouse.com

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