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What is up with this shit about personal responsibility?

My intuition tells me we’re hurtling in the wrong direction. It’s not just climate change and the Ukraine war sending us that way. Why is…

2 min readAug 30, 2022

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What is up with this shit about personal responsibility?

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Bouncin’ and Behaving Blogs TOO

Can You Tell the Difference Between a Competent and Confident Leader and a Nincompoop and Why Does…

Confidence does not equal competence. I learned that working as a purchasing professional for over twenty years in various industries. You…

3 min readApr 18, 2024

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Can You Tell the Difference Between a Competent and Confident Leader and a Nincompoop and Why Does…

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Bouncin’ and Behaving Blogs TOO

The curse of authoritarianism — why we should leave the fat old men of Rome behind

It’s been over 1200 years. The Roman Empire died long ago, the Western before the Eastern. Can we move on, please?

2 min readMar 23, 2024

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The curse of authoritarianism — why we should leave the fat old men of Rome behind

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Bouncin’ and Behaving Blogs TOO

No One’s Ever Seen a Drunken Tree Shrew, but We’ve Seen Lots of Drunken Monkeys

Did you know we enjoyed getting a buzz on a long time ago? History indicates humans started brewing beer around 12,000 years ago. The…

4 min readMar 9, 2024

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No One’s Ever Seen a Drunken Tree Shrew, but We’ve Seen Lots of Drunken Monkeys

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What to cook, and when to ignore the snow closure sign during a Seattle snowstorm so you’re not…

I’m in danger of getting stranded on this hill. After sitting for 10 minutes in a line of traffic during the unrelenting blizzard a few…

3 min readFeb 26, 2024

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What to cook, and when to ignore the snow closure sign during a Seattle snowstorm so you’re not…

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Kris Keppeler

Who died and Named you God, a short history of assholes and how to get past it

My grandfather’s favorite phrase was, “Who died and named you God?” I find myself going back to this phrase a lot these days. The number of…

3 min readSep 26, 2023

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Who died and Named you God, a short history of assholes and how to get past it

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Sybarite

Use a Blowtorch on Dessert

An American scientist finagled a British Title, and Now we Have Baked Alaska

3 min readSep 11, 2023

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Use a Blowtorch on Dessert

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Why do we continue to vote for men who behave like the boss we despise?

I’ve wondered about this for some time. A few top reasons people say they hate their boss are:

3 min readAug 26, 2023

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Sybarite

Let’s Make Elderberry Syrup and Turn the Kitchen Purple

Let’s embrace chaos.

3 min readMay 8, 2023

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Let’s Make Elderberry Syrup and Turn the Kitchen Purple

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The Haven

Three of us love it spicy, and one doesn’t, but the extra-hot chilis are testing all our mettle.

One of the things my partner and I have in common is our love of spicy food. A girlfriend introduced me to spicy food over twenty years…

2 min readMay 5, 2023

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Three of us love it spicy, and one doesn’t, but the extra-hot chilis are testing all our mettle.

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Kris Keppeler

Kris Keppeler

Writer, audiobook narrator, actor, and podcaster. Over 50 audiobooks narrated, https://tinyurl.com/mvrwu2xs. Do you have a story for me to narrate?

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