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Don’t Eat Your Young

Posted on May 1, 2026May 1, 2026

So last week I made the decision to leave Instagram. With the chaos and misinformation being put out there these days, I’d been thinking about it for a while, but I couldn’t pull the trigger until one song—and one video—pushed me over the edge. I was making a compilation of all the great outdoors activities…

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Leaving Instagram

Posted on April 27, 2026April 27, 2026

Before the book writing and before this site, the first place I really started storytelling was on Instagram. And before Instagram I spurned all forms of social media. I thought Facebook was self-adulating, and Instagram was as well, but at least on Instagram you could post a pretty picture without a caption or a word….

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Learning Social Media in Your 40s

Posted on January 23, 2020April 18, 2025

Ok, so I’m a bit of a Luddite. At the turn of the century, I was the last person I knew to get a cellphone. When I did finally get one, it was a flip phone, but people had already moved on to Blackberrys. After a couple of years listening to my friends rave about…

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