Category Archives: Something Different

Pride Picnic 2021

Posted on June 30, 2021 by fredhesser

We arrive early to help set up the picnic. Volunteers are already organizing by the time we arrive, led by a black person with rainbow hair named Star (they/them). I am introduced to Star by Caelan, and learn that Star … Continue reading →

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Why I Stopped Writing The Flying Squirrels

Posted on February 4, 2019 by fredhesser

So I haven’t published anything here in awhile, and the reason for that is not that I gave up writing, but rather just that I started working on a project I’d like to keep private for now. It took up … Continue reading →

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On the Scientist Salarian

Posted on April 9, 2018 by fredhesser

Much like my thoughts on the USPS in The Walking Dead pilot, here’s a random thought about another piece of pop culture well past the point where it was probably relevant: So in Mass Effect 2 (the science fiction shooting-of-mans … Continue reading →

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Local Politics

Posted on March 12, 2018 by fredhesser

Local politics can be weird. Correction: local politics are like national politics in microcosm. Including all the weirdness. At the end of February, I attended a Public Safety meeting at City Hall in my town about the police buying a … Continue reading →

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Forgiveness

Posted on February 26, 2018 by fredhesser

“You have to forgive people,” a friend of mine told me not long ago. I took issue. You don’t have to forgive anyone. At no point, no matter what happens, are you required to forgive someone for what they’ve done. … Continue reading →

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Terrorism

Posted on February 12, 2018 by fredhesser

I nearly lost my mother to terrorism. I didn’t, but it was close. I was 7 at the time, and didn’t understand it. It took me years before I really thought about it in terms of “Terrorism.” For a long … Continue reading →

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Optimal Book Placement

Posted on January 29, 2018 by fredhesser

I was reading a book my partner gave me. It was late in the evening, they were already in bed. We had been fighting a bit, nothing huge, but a bit. Still, I had promised the other day that I … Continue reading →

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Lonely Books

Posted on January 8, 2018 by fredhesser

I took a train this holiday season. I know nobody really takes the train anymore unless you live in a major city East of the Mississippi (in America at least). I quite like trains though, and so when the option … Continue reading →

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Living Outside the Kingdom

Posted on December 11, 2017 by fredhesser

Imagine, if you will, that you could build a human from scratch. Molecule by molecule, assembling each cell individually. Imagine if you could do this, and when the process was done, you had a viable human. A living breathing human … Continue reading →

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One Star Soup Kitchen

Posted on October 18, 2017 by fredhesser

I saw a one star review of a soup kitchen. The existence of such a review says so much before I even read the content. I didn’t question why the review existed, because of course it did. It is everything … Continue reading →

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