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Why I’m Cutting Down on Artificial Sweeteners
I may have been wrong about artificial sweeteners. I’ve always been a big fan of them, because I love stuffing sweet things in my mouth, but also try to keep my daily calorie count somewhat reasonable. Sweeteners also have an ideological draw—I love artificial things. I’m typing this on an artificial iPad, powered by artificial…
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2019 In Review
Another year, another complete failure to blog. That’s not entirely true. I occasionally write over on Medium, and have good intentions to copy the posts over here to my main blog sometime, but then forget. My micro-press Forest City Pulp also gets occasional updates. Oh and I’ve started writing at the group blog Across the…
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2018 in Review
Looks like time has chewed away another year from my life. I had the typical “there were plenty of highs and lows” type of year. I find that at this age (late thirties), both the highs and lows are more profound. For example, people in my age cohort not only have children, but have children…

I’m Phronk, also known as P.T. Phronk, or Mike. I’m a writer and scientist. Here’s where to find my stuff:
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