Category Archives: Too XYZ

Still Too XYZ

The other day I was going way back in this blog’s history, and even back into the Too XYZ days. The initial intent was to go back and remove comments and in some cases guest posts from former friends of mine who have either stopped talking to me, or in a few cases straight up …

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Ty’s Virtual Meet and Greet

Truth be told I know there are some folks out there. This blog has about 100 followers via WordPress, and a certain group of them tend to mention when they “like” one of my posts. And of course I have one or two regular commenters that post thoughtful responses on a regular basis. For that …

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Open Letter to a Quiet Hypocrite

For the purposes of this open letter, the subject will be referred to as “Poffenbarger.” -T.U. Dear Poffenbarger, I would have used your first name so as to at last be on equal footing with you.  Yet I don’t want to seem as though I’m familiar or comfortable with you, even now. In fact, you don’t even …

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The Open Letter Continuum

Today I’m announcing a project on this blog for 2014. I’m calling it the Open Letter Continuum. It’s been said that writing a letter to certain people, even if they cannot or will not read it, provides psychological benefits to the writer. This is especially true when the recipient hurt the writer in some way, …

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Reverb13 Day 13: Community. (Lack thereof.)

In 2014, how could you explore what community means to you? Where might the alchemy be? The whole concept of community is a tricky one for me to discuss and write about. Community has come up in previous Reverbs. I even mentioned it this very month in a previous post from this year’s Reverb. It also …

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