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Fielding Questions About My New Job's Shift Meal Policy
DANIEL: The burden is easy; the yoke is light. I receive no more than two to three emails a day on average. FRIENDS: Surely not —!DANIEL: It is not…
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Daniel Lavery
"But PornosexualGooner101 Died 35 Years Ago...This Very Night!"
"There’s this idea that straight cis men have an entirely uncomplicated relationship to porn because they’re the most normative porn consumer…
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Being Asked to Join the Sacred Band of Thebes a Little Too Soon in a New Relationship
We had talked about the possibility in a general way once or twice, I’m sure. Lots of lovers do. They do it in the same way you might also talk about…
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Daniel Lavery
Cupid and Psyche, Part IV: Somebody Get Me Some Wool
Cupid, meanwhile, was grounded. Recuperating. Chores for wives, house arrest for husbands, was the order of the day.
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An Excerpt from "Christmas at the Women's Hotel"
Christmas at the Women’s Hotel is coming out in about a week.
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Daniel Lavery

September 2025

Fielding Questions About How Big the Bus I Get to Drive for Work is
Driving the big bus at work makes me feel like a character in Richard Scarry’s Busytown, alive with purpose, and surrounded by co-laborers who manage to…
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A Mild Defense of Mansfield Park's Edmund Bertram
“I am going to write a husband whom no one but myself will much like"
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Three Parents Discuss Children's Books, Part II
"I think Nikki is a liar and Grandma knows exactly what happened."
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"I'm taking my ten" jobs versus "Are you going to the meeting later?" jobs
First order of business: Today some friends and I are starting a new website!
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Three Parents Talk About Children's Books
The celebrity of the moon, the going-to-bed plot, against moralizing
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It's Your First Day As A Medieval Chef. Time To Learn To Use Spices To Mask The Taste of Rotting Meat
Related: The middle class is always emerging, there must have been at least one good reason to join the Puritans in 1600, and middle-class striver…
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Daniel Lavery

August 2025

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