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Turbines, Truth, and the American Way

Turbines, Truth, and the American Way

Blake Mather, government liaison, arrives in Flat Hollow to investigate wind turbines, only to face paranoia, cryptic locals, and shifting truths.

2025

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Medicare’s Absurd Expat Tax: Pay for Coverage You Can’t Use or Get Hammered With Penalties

So you decide to live the dream. Sell the house, ditch the commute, and head to Lisbon, Chiang Mai, or Medellín for your golden years…

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Medicare’s Absurd Expat Tax: Pay for Coverage You Can’t Use or Get Hammered With Penalties

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So You’ve Been Shoved Into Retirement Without a Party: Now What?

Picture this: you wake up on a random Tuesday thinking you’re still gainfully employed, still “part of the team,” still that guy with the…

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So You’ve Been Shoved Into Retirement Without a Party: Now What?

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The Strange Rituals of Aging: A Field Guide to Human Quirks After 60

It starts small. A drawer that won’t shut because it’s overstuffed with saved plastic bags. A muttered “oof” every time you stand up. A…

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The Strange Rituals of Aging: A Field Guide to Human Quirks After 60

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The Ten Worst Pieces of Retirement Advice (That Won’t Die, No Matter How Many Boomers They…

Retirement advice is like diet pills at a gas station counter: shiny, simplistic, and guaranteed to wreck you if you swallow it. The gurus…

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The Ten Worst Pieces of Retirement Advice (That Won’t Die, No Matter How Many Boomers They…

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Sixty and Reborn in Red: Japan’s Kanreki and the Strange Comfort of Becoming a Baby Again

If you’re in the West, hitting sixty usually means an awkward office cake with too much frosting, a stack of retirement brochures, and some…

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Sixty and Reborn in Red: Japan’s Kanreki and the Strange Comfort of Becoming a Baby Again

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Smiling at the Door: How America Turned Our Elders Into Greeters

Walk into any Walmart at 8:30 on a Tuesday morning and there he is: an 82-year-old man in a blue vest with a name tag that reads “Bill.” He…

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Smiling at the Door: How America Turned Our Elders Into Greeters

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Seniors vs. the Digital Car Circus: When Driving Became an App You Can’t Delete

There was a time when the most complicated thing in your car was deciding which cassette to shove into the deck. Springsteen or Fleetwood…

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Seniors vs. the Digital Car Circus: When Driving Became an App You Can’t Delete

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Snackageddon: How Protein Chips and Superfood Dust Are Hijacking Your Pantry

Let’s be clear: we’re living in the era of Frankenfoods. Not the terrifying lab-mutant variety from late-night TV, but the…

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Snackageddon: How Protein Chips and Superfood Dust Are Hijacking Your Pantry

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UBI and Retirement: The Bandage for a System That Can’t Measure Value

The Broken Ruler

Nov 7

UBI and Retirement: The Bandage for a System That Can’t Measure Value

Nov 7

Boomers: The Generation Everyone Loves to Hate — and Why That’s Too Simple

I’m 61. Which means I get lumped in with every rant about housing inequality, climate collapse, and Social Security doom. In today’s…

Nov 6

Boomers: The Generation Everyone Loves to Hate — and Why That’s Too Simple

Nov 6

Troy Breiland

Troy Breiland

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Author of The Sad Story of the Rat, the Cat, and the Mole, Truth, Turbines, and the American Way, and Recursive.

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