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An Open Invitation to Every Human..
who thinks "there is a time and a place to talk about social justice and inequality" It’s interesting how here and now is never that...
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calcates
- May 25, 2022
- 4 min
Shooting in the Dark
“Why does this keep happening?”, we ask in heartbroken disbelief. It keeps happening because it’s an option. The ubiquity of guns in this...
calcates
- Apr 23, 2022
- 4 min
Why I Get Up
I like to ask real questions. When I meet a person and they say, “My husband this...” or “My wife that…” I regularly ask, “Do you like...
calcates
- Sep 10, 2021
- 4 min
Bad Advice
I have given a lot of bad advice. I never meant to do it. It just happened. I was trying to help. I was trying to stop the pain. Aren’t...
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- Sep 6, 2021
- 3 min
Skunk
“I always enjoy Cal’s presentations, but I thought it was deeply inappropriate to throw Critical Race Theory into the middle of a...
calcates
- May 6, 2021
- 3 min
Bound Up (explicit)
We are nothing without each other and yet, we treat each other like we’re nothing. We have got to do so much better. Last night, my...
calcates
- Jan 18, 2021
- 5 min
Look kids! Big Ben!
Martin Luther King Day will be observed in our nation for the 26th time this year. Ronald Reagan signed the bill in 1983 and the first...
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- Jan 15, 2021
- 3 min
Is that Folgers?
“Gah! That guy just spilled my coffee!” Actually, “that guy” just spilled whatever was in your cup. Could have been water. Could have...
calcates
- Jan 7, 2021
- 3 min
The Chips
We had an election. The chips fell, as they say. One guy didn’t win. That’s how elections go. There’s a person who wins and a person who...
calcates
- Dec 21, 2020
- 5 min
Mind the Gap
Remember that scene in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade where he comes barreling down the stone passageway into what looks like a...
calcates
- Dec 15, 2020
- 7 min
When the Boob is on the Other Foot
On Monday morning, I went to a consult with a surgeon to see about having what is often called in the trans community "top surgery." For...
calcates
- Dec 8, 2020
- 7 min
The Shadow Knows
I have been hanging out at the bedside of dying people for about 15 years now. Every time I tell someone who doesn’t also do that work...
calcates
- Dec 2, 2020
- 5 min
Trigger Happy
“Ugh. That thing she said? It totally triggered me.” How many times have you heard this or something like it in the last handful of...
calcates
- Nov 16, 2020
- 3 min
Do I Look Small in This?
I’ve been reading The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias by Dolly Chugh. Oh, man. Every time I pick it up, I make sure I’m...
calcates
- Nov 12, 2020
- 3 min
Electric Cars and Agent Orange
“The electric vehicle is not for everybody. It can only meet the needs of 90 percent of the population.” Ed Begley, perhaps not a giant...
calcates
- Oct 26, 2020
- 4 min
Gimme That Ol’ Time Repression
"Pull your shirt down!" came an adult female voice from off-field. I was playing football with the boys again. It was summer. It was hot....
calcates
- Oct 12, 2020
- 3 min
Not So New World
Columbus Day is yet another way America misses the point on purpose.
calcates
- Oct 7, 2020
- 3 min
You're Invited!
We’re at a crossroads. It’s all very Tom Hanks at the end of Castaway. Many of us find this to be true on a personal level, but it’s...
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