Tag: Personal Stories
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Finding Truth in a Post-Truth, Fake-News World—Part 3, the case of the uneatable sandwich
As promised in my last post, I am going to tell another true story, one that considers how narrative can sometime bias observation, and how we have to apply reason even when we think we have observations! Again, I first published this story as a Tweet Storm back in 2021. Narrative is a big part…
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Finding Truth in a Post-Truth, Fake-News World—Part 2, the case of the invisible monster
As promised in my previous post, I’m going to tell a story about the trickiness of observation and how my 5-year old daughter saw through a clever but deceptive narrative that I told to exercise her powers of reason! I first published this on X (then Twitter) as my very first Tweet Storm—a series of…
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Hills of Tennessee
Despite our misadventures last year with the rear door of our van, we are on our way again this year to visit my son Fenner and his wife Janna in Florida over Christmas! We are very excited, leaving home at temperature below zero and moving toward lows in the fifties and even sixties! As we…
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Campervan Road Adventures!
Adventure means more than hiking past rocky outcrops, visiting old haunts, and seeing family! Adventure means stumbling into challenging circumstances! We were in Florida to help our son move into his new apartment in Orlando for his new job with Lockheed-Martin when the lock failed on the rear doors of our van! We could not…
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Campervan Adventures in Old Haunts!
When my wife and I were “courting” way back in graduate school days in Tennessee, we took a trip to Fall Creek Falls on the Cumberland Plateau and hiked through the woods through a steady rain, boasting to each other about which of us had the better raincoat (learning how to share life challenges together!)…