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I’m going to swim 6.5 miles to help protect SF Bay.

Dylan / 6/2/2017

Like many Americans, I’m angry and disappointed about Trump’s repudiation of the Paris Agreement. What are we going to do about […]

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Suburban survival

Dylan / 5/23/2017

I read that Annie Dillard, when composing Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, was living in the suburbs and raising a family.

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How You Got My Attention

Dylan / 1/19/2017

One of today’s top recommended stories in my Medium feed is a piece intriguingly titled “How I Got My Attention Back.” I

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The difficulty with complexity.

Dylan / 1/6/2017

As a society, we are facing a crisis of understanding. Fake news is just the latest expression of a deeper

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Santa is real.

Dylan / 12/28/2016

This year I took the kids shopping with me on Christmas Eve. I gave them $60 each: A twenty to buy

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Signing off Facebook for awhile.

Dylan / 12/15/2016

I’m done with Facebook for now, so I am signing off for awhile. Partly I am annoyed with the company

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Specific gratitude

Dylan / 11/21/2016

Keeping a gratitude diary, or less pretentiously, taking some time out of every day to write down the things you’re thankful for, is an effective way to increase happiness.

And I’d like to suggest one small addition.

In addition to writing down things you’re thankful for (rainbows, puppies, burritos) take some time each day to express your gratitude to a specific person.