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Eavesdropping in New York

Modeling tips and life lessons from the next table

9 min readApr 6, 2024

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Eavesdropping in New York

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Transgender People: Everything I Ever Wanted to Know About Them But Was Afraid to Ask

A Deep Dive into Transgender Psychology, Biology and Politics

15 min readMar 13, 2024

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Transgender People: Everything I Ever Wanted to Know About Them But Was Afraid to Ask

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A Retired Man’s Valentine’s Day Ode to His Working Wife

Happy Valentine’s Day to my workin’ girl

1 min readFeb 15, 2024

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A Retired Man’s Valentine’s Day Ode to His Working Wife

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Don’t Let the Bed Bugs Bite? Don’t Let ’em in Your Home in the First Place!

The chances you’ll experience an infestation may be low, but if you do, the hassle and stress are through the roof. Trust me.

8 min readJan 18, 2024

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Don’t Let the Bed Bugs Bite? Don’t Let ’em in Your Home in the First Place!

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How I Learned to Meditate Again After a 40-Year Lapse, and What I Get From It

A daily mental reset on the path to perpetual flow

11 min readJan 1, 2024

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How I Learned to Meditate Again After a 40-Year Lapse, and What I Get From It

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When They Yelled “Fire!” in the Crowded Theater of Free Speech

As I watched three indisputably intelligent women college presidents looking awfully dense struggling to answer Congresswoman Elise…

6 min readDec 14, 2023

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When They Yelled “Fire!” in the Crowded Theater of Free Speech

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My Ideal Self Expects a Lot of Me. Maybe More Than I Can Deliver.

Photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash

3 min readNov 22, 2023

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My Ideal Self Expects a Lot of Me. Maybe More Than I Can Deliver.

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A Poem for My Wife on Her 64th Birthday

Just what I always wanted

1 min readNov 10, 2023

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A Poem for My Wife on Her 64th Birthday

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The Bear Effect: Will the Hit Hulu Series Change Our Expectations and Experiences at Upscale…

Sometimes life imitates art. On occasion, it can extract insights from art that seep into our behavior and experiences. That happened to me…

8 min readNov 6, 2023

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I Just Got Woke. Tupac’s Murder Was No Joke.

At the Annual Whitehouse Correspondents’ Association Dinner in 2011, President Barak Obama sought a small measure of revenge against Donald…

4 min readSep 30, 2023

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I Just Got Woke. Tupac’s Murder Was No Joke.

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Martin D. Hirsch

Martin D. Hirsch

Lapsed singer-songwriter, 35-year accidental company man, citizen of The Woodstock Nation, avid essayist, occasional poet, aspiring author, dogged evolutionary.

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