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

The Broken Ruler

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

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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…

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

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Retirement Startups: Why Seniors Are Launching Businesses Instead of Napping

Forget shuffleboard, forget golf, and forget the recliner commercials selling you the fantasy of endless naps in orthopedic bliss. The real…

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Retirement Startups: Why Seniors Are Launching Businesses Instead of Napping

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Winter Weather Precautions for Seniors: Survival, Not Nostalgia

Winter looks magical in postcards — fireplaces, twinkling lights, snowflakes drifting down. But for older adults, winter isn’t a pretty…

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Winter Weather Precautions for Seniors: Survival, Not Nostalgia

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From McMansion to Motorhome: Why Downsizing into an RV Is the New Retirement Hustle

Retirement used to be a Norman Rockwell painting: a white-picket house, a paid-off mortgage, and a backyard where you’d watch the grandkids…

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From McMansion to Motorhome: Why Downsizing into an RV Is the New Retirement Hustle

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Sleep When You’re Dead? The Corporate Conspiracy That Boomers Already Survived

Every era has its cults. Ours happens to be productivity.

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Sleep When You’re Dead? The Corporate Conspiracy That Boomers Already Survived

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Why We Keep Falling for Political Promises (Even When We Know They’re Lies)

The democracy of self-deception runs on hope, fear, and really good marketing

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Why We Keep Falling for Political Promises (Even When We Know They’re Lies)

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The Senior Diet Wars: Why Your Golden Years Don’t Need to Be Beige

Let’s get something straight right off the bat: the worst part of senior nutrition advice isn’t the advice itself. It’s the packaging.

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The Senior Diet Wars: Why Your Golden Years Don’t Need to Be Beige

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The Psychic Retiree: Why Your Gut Gets Smarter After Sixty (And No, It’s Not Just Gas)

There’s a little secret no one tells you about aging: your brain gets better at certain things while everyone’s trying to sell you hearing…

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The Psychic Retiree: Why Your Gut Gets Smarter After Sixty (And No, It’s Not Just Gas)

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The Daylight Savings Hangover: Why We’re Still Pretending the Sun Has a Snooze Button

If you didn’t remember, November 2, 2025 marks the end of Daylight Saving Time. And if you forgot, that’s okay — so did half the country…

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The Daylight Savings Hangover: Why We’re Still Pretending the Sun Has a Snooze Button

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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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