Raised By Turtles

Past Tense

9 Apr 2021 (updated 30 May, 2024)

Did you know that it is about as long between today and the bombing of Pearl Harbor as between the bombing and the start of the Civil War? I’ve collected a few other “midpoint” juxtapositions that, at least for me illustrate a tension between the past and my perception of the past. Thus, Past Tense.

Awards

3 Jun 2020 (updated 30 May, 2024)

In which your hero is spared a life of arrogance and stunted creativity thanks to a relay race gone wrong and a pedophile.

Bookclub: Donald Hall, Essays after Eighty

3 Apr 2020 (updated 30 May, 2024)

Essays on life after 80 by a former poet laureate and musings on life at 56 by a random blogger of no particular note.

Nov 9, 1984

22 Dec 2019 (updated 30 May, 2024)

Definitely not whimsical. I wrote the first draft of this perhaps ten years ago and it reflects, as well as I could in hindsight, the funhouse mirror of my mind at 21. It wasn’t pretty. But if you love someone who is depressed, this might help you understand just a little bit better. If you are depressed, maybe it will give you a little bit of hope. For what it’s worth, I have not felt this way in decades.

Now without tracking!

20 Dec 2019 (updated 30 May, 2024)

We are tracked too aggressively on the web. I am opting out and, while you’re on my blog, I’m opting you out too.

The Best of Our Energies

1 Dec 2019 (updated 30 May, 2024)

The story of a visionary president, a moonshot and the most powerful toilet bowl cleaners known to man.

Best Practices (If Physical Mail Were Like Email)

29 Nov 2019 (updated 30 May, 2024)

Down at the pmail warehouse, I’m scuba diving in my Incoming bin and CCing people like a dervish. If only I could find time to do some actual work.

Friends Lie

13 Nov 2019 (updated 30 May, 2024)

The really good ones do anyway.

The Faithful Couple

12 Nov 2019 (updated 30 May, 2024)

Love. A little about us. A little about them. A little about nobody I actually know. A little about some trees I care about.

About Raised by Turtles

First and foremost: no ads, no tracking.

Second, this photo is really old now. I have a LOT more gray hair now.

Third, I actually lied in #1. I have added an ad for the Raised by Turtles book. I guess it's true: everything online becomes an ad-infested cesspool eventually.

Finally, this blog is maintained (to put it charitably) by Tom Lambert. Sometimes I have things on my mind and on rare occasions, I write them down. On even rarer occasions, people read them. If you like them, you're welcome. If you don't, I'm not offended. I don't like most things I read. YouTube is just one click away.

If you have a question, send me an email.

A few favorites

Improved Roads (thoughts on the loss of wild places)
The Forgetoir (a new literary form to replace the memoir)
A Theory of Dryer Crimes (fiction in which Jason turns out to be an asshole)
The Faithful Couple (a poem about long-term love)
Curriculum Vitae (a poem about learning to live)
Best Jeremiah Johnson Quotes (a movie to live by)
Ice Cream For Dinner (imaginary high school graduation speech; my chance to tell young people to stop listening to the lies of their elders)
The Boy Behind the Couch (reading Susan Cain and my secret life as an introvert)
Sarah's Watch (fiction fragment and experiment in writing with Hemingway App)
Learning to Read (and what makes a great reader).
Two Mirrors (the one in your head and the one in the head of someone who loves you)