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About paulefallon

Greetings reader. I am a writer, architect, cyclist and father from Cambridge, MA. My primary blog, theawkwardpose.com is an archive of all my published writing. The title refers to a sequence of three yoga positions that increase focus and build strength by shifting the body’s center of gravity. The objective is balance without stability. My writing addresses opposing tension in our world, and my attempt to find balance through understanding that opposition. During 2015-2106 I am cycling through all 48 mainland United States and asking the question "How will we live tomorrow?" That journey is chronicled in a dedicated blog, www.howwillwelivetomorrw.com, that includes personal writing related to my adventure as well as others' responses to my question. Thank you for visiting.

Half Hour Away from Being Old

Posted on 02/20/2018 by paulefallon

Last week I was invited to a friend’s house for dinner: at 5:30 p.m. I can still recall dinners at eight, though it’s been years since I attended one. Most of my friends invite guests at seven. Six-thirty is my … Continue reading →

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Tomorrow Finally Arrives at Amazon

Posted on 02/13/2018 by paulefallon

After several months and many snafu’s, the full color, coffee table version of How Will We Live Tomorrow? is available to order through Amazon. I apologize to all who ordered the book back in December, when Amazon named it a … Continue reading →

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Homosexuals Rub Shoulders at The Met

Posted on 02/06/2018 by paulefallon

Dapper gents in green ties have eyed each other across the galleries of The Metropolitan Museum of Art for over a century. There’s nothing new in that. What’s new these days, green ties long discarded, is that we get to … Continue reading →

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Call Me White

Posted on 01/30/2018 by paulefallon

I stayed awake for three days straight during senior year fraternity rush. All day socializing with prospective members, late night parties back in the halcyon days of age 18 alcohol, topped by after-hour meetings deciding which guys to offer a … Continue reading →

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Yet Another Bastion of Privilege: The Chaste Mouth

Posted on 01/23/2018 by paulefallon

To be a white man in 2018 is to find yourself dug daily into ever deeper depths of Dante Inferno-like privilege. I recently learned of an entirely new arena in which my behavior supposedly reflects my precipice status: I don’t … Continue reading →

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Entertainment Tonight … and Tomorrow … and the Day After That

Posted on 01/16/2018 by paulefallon

It’s inauguration anniversary week—one year since Donald Trump took the Oath of Office. Many will pen commentaries on whatever good or ill our President has delivered. I fall square in the camp that believes Donald’s a bully who’s diminished our … Continue reading →

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Rules of The Road

Posted on 01/09/2018 by paulefallon

Everybody loves a guy on a bike. Except when you’re driving alongside one. Then you just want that bicycle gone. As a man who cycles for primary transport, with a track record of pedaling pretty far, automobile drivers often pinhole … Continue reading →

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Case Studies in Sexual Harassment

Posted on 01/02/2018 by paulefallon

When I first heard about Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey and Charlie Rose, about men with loose bathrobes and wandering hands who force penetration, I figured it was just another example of me being a stranger in this strange land. … Continue reading →

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My Life: Played Out on Broadway

Posted on 12/26/2017 by paulefallon

  2017. A lump rises in my throat as my eyes lift to behold Dolly Levi, at the top of the grand stairway at Harmonia Gardens. The audience bursts with applause. Dolly descends in her signature red dress and feather … Continue reading →

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Winter is Coming

Posted on 12/19/2017 by paulefallon

  In the Bicentennial year of 1976, my Sociology professor proclaimed, “The United States won’t have a revolution; you can’t have a revolution in a country where 70% of the people are satisfied.” His statistical construct may be correct. What’s … Continue reading →

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