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Michael Fisher

The Costs Aren’t Worth It: Open Schools

I’m flying for the first time in eight months. Everyone on this United flight wears a mask, but everything else is as I remember. Prior to…

Oct 23, 2020

Oct 23, 2020

Should I Stay or Should I Go? The Memorial Day Weekend Dilemma

In the time of coronavirus, I listen to Dharma talks Zoom’ed from the San Francisco Zen Center. This past Sunday, Jiryu from Green Gulch…

May 21, 2020

Should I Stay or Should I Go? The Memorial Day Weekend Dilemma

May 21, 2020

A Troubled Season of Love

Swaddled in comfort, we stood there waiting. The high sun cast over thousands of faces, lines stretched as far as the eye could see. This…

Jul 21, 2017

A Troubled Season of Love

Jul 21, 2017

Questions of travel

She couldn’t lose control. Even dishes needed to be moved in my sink. “Why?” I wanted to ask. I kept holding my tongue. I couldn’t lose…

Apr 21, 2017

Apr 21, 2017

I just wanted pancakes

The exercise of free will can be a messy business.

Mar 26, 2017

I just wanted pancakes

Mar 26, 2017

A strategy beyond marching

These are signs of America in distress:

Jan 25, 2017

A strategy beyond marching

Jan 25, 2017

An answer to anger

This poster hangs outside the room I work in. I passed by it many times before the election, but since then it has taken on new meaning.

Nov 16, 2016

An answer to anger

Nov 16, 2016

On Politics and Privilege

It’s a warm night, the kind of October warmth that only graces great American cities in uncertain climate times.

Oct 28, 2016

On Politics and Privilege

Oct 28, 2016

The prospects of precarity, redux

Standing in IKEA, questioning significance. The jokes on me kept coming. From Buddhism to bust. Zen and the art of futon shopping. Which…

Sep 9, 2016

The prospects of precarity, redux

Sep 9, 2016

Ego Relaxation Training

I was probably bound to confuse Buddhism with another form of self-improvement.

Aug 26, 2016

Ego Relaxation Training

Aug 26, 2016

Michael Fisher

Michael Fisher

Writer, teacher, recovering academic. After finishing my PhD in American history, I moved to San Francisco in 2016. This blog tells the story.

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