David Deal·Apr 16We Don’t Need an AI Val KilmerAI has improved my life in very important ways. ChatGPT helped me research elder care options for my mother and slash a medical bill in…
David Deal·Feb 14Empathy in the Checkout LaneThe grocery store cashier standing in front of Jan and me looked like someone who had been standing for a long time. Not just today. For…
David Deal·Nov 3, 2025Dia de los Muertos 2025: Remembrance and Resistance in PilsenThe 2025 Dia de los Muertos celebration at Dvorak Park in Pilsen was lightly attended, and the parade was canceled. No one mentioned the…
David Deal·Jun 18, 2025Music and Trauma in West TexasJan and I were driving through West Texas in the late 1990s when we stopped at the University of Texas McDonald Observatory near Fort…
David Deal·Jun 15, 2025Growing up with “Why Can’t We Live Together”I first heard Timmy Thomas’s “Why Can’t We Live Together” when the song came out in the early 1970s. I was old enough (barely) to…
InThe RiffbyDavid Deal·May 7, 2025Running for Cover with Olivia Kaplan and Miya Folick“Dear Mister Fantasy play us a tune Something to make us all happy Do anything take us out of this gloom Sing a song, play guitar Make it…
David Deal·Mar 8, 2025When You Lose EverythingJan and I stepped into the license plate renewal office on a raw March afternoon, the kind of cold that settles in your bones and stays. We…
