# Daniel By [我在这里等你！](https://paragraph.com/@0xed669d95340e3e66d4134f1b6c74ab3c82643c33) · 2022-03-06 --- [23 hours ago](https://daniel-williams737.medium.com/want-to-know-thyself-get-thee-a-dog-ef157735ccd?source=user_profile---------0-------------------------------) [Want To Know Thyself? Get Thee A Dog](https://daniel-williams737.medium.com/want-to-know-thyself-get-thee-a-dog-ef157735ccd?source=user_profile---------0-------------------------------) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [But only if you want to live without regret — My son said, “I’m ready for a dog.” “Okay,” I said. “You ready to feed it?” “Yes.” “Walk it every day?” “Yes.” “Pick up its poo?” “Yes.” “Maybe you didn’t hear me. If we get a dog, you’ll have to pick up tons of poo. By that I mean crap…](https://daniel-williams737.medium.com/want-to-know-thyself-get-thee-a-dog-ef157735ccd?source=user_profile---------0-------------------------------) [Dogs](https://medium.com/tag/dogs?source=user_profile--------------------dogs--------------------) [5 min read](https://daniel-williams737.medium.com/want-to-know-thyself-get-thee-a-dog-ef157735ccd?source=user_profile---------0-------------------------------) ![Want To Know Thyself? Get Thee A Dog](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/86d102ba92a26783e23fca9904dff4b66e2888f9ad59584dd5882842a0b061f4.jpg) Want To Know Thyself? Get Thee A Dog ![Want To Know Thyself? Get Thee A Dog](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/32677375957d5080eebe19ee932e80cebcb5fc323786b56dca8494116b6ce1f6.jpg) Want To Know Thyself? Get Thee A Dog [Feb 26](https://daniel-williams737.medium.com/my-motorcycle-time-machine-936e28717188?source=user_profile---------1-------------------------------) [My Motorcycle Time Machine](https://daniel-williams737.medium.com/my-motorcycle-time-machine-936e28717188?source=user_profile---------1-------------------------------) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [It takes me everywhere, but mostly back — I know riding my motorcycle is dangerous. When I pass actuaries, I feel them undressing me with their eyes then dressing me up again in a suit and coffin. Even so, I ride. I must. My bike, the iron flower of my midlife crisis, has given me a great gift…](https://daniel-williams737.medium.com/my-motorcycle-time-machine-936e28717188?source=user_profile---------1-------------------------------) [Children](https://medium.com/tag/children?source=user_profile--------------------children--------------------) [5 min read](https://daniel-williams737.medium.com/my-motorcycle-time-machine-936e28717188?source=user_profile---------1-------------------------------) ![My Motorcycle Time Machine](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/05314dac0964f528a53f6750a92a5340031129992ea19c63d90237c6cba947fb.jpg) My Motorcycle Time Machine ![My Motorcycle Time Machine](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/b8990d097a0ecafc6c576191e22ce8228d723b482713e77bc9f59bf5a9406013.jpg) My Motorcycle Time Machine [Feb 19](https://daniel-williams737.medium.com/spread-your-lips-and-bare-your-teeth-its-family-photo-time-8ec5148a112f?source=user_profile---------2-------------------------------) [Spread Your Lips And Bare Your Teeth, It’s Family Photo Time](https://daniel-williams737.medium.com/spread-your-lips-and-bare-your-teeth-its-family-photo-time-8ec5148a112f?source=user_profile---------2-------------------------------) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [I’d rather be forgotten than remembered this way — We need to go to smile school. Our teachers? Babies. Babies are the only people who know how to smile. If they’re feeling it, they smile. If they’re not, they don’t. Ever.](https://daniel-williams737.medium.com/spread-your-lips-and-bare-your-teeth-its-family-photo-time-8ec5148a112f?source=user_profile---------2-------------------------------) [Family](https://medium.com/tag/family?source=user_profile--------------------family--------------------) [5 min read](https://daniel-williams737.medium.com/spread-your-lips-and-bare-your-teeth-its-family-photo-time-8ec5148a112f?source=user_profile---------2-------------------------------) ![Spread Your Lips And Bare Your Teeth, It’s Family Photo Time](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/acc6a6c6257d462aa358a08d084e387d51d1bccbaa30ae07f24f68197e4669cb.jpg) Spread Your Lips And Bare Your Teeth, It’s Family Photo Time ![Spread Your Lips And Bare Your Teeth, It’s Family Photo Time](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/2a2eedc4f8e0b5af451c736838cbd7fb51057335e5fdee47eb89f169638cd5c5.jpg) Spread Your Lips And Bare Your Teeth, It’s Family Photo Time [Feb 12](https://daniel-williams737.medium.com/if-youre-only-as-old-as-you-feel-i-am-dead-feb6614f42f1?source=user_profile---------3-------------------------------) [If You’re Only As Old As You Feel, I Am Dead](https://daniel-williams737.medium.com/if-youre-only-as-old-as-you-feel-i-am-dead-feb6614f42f1?source=user_profile---------3-------------------------------) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Welcome to the land of aging long before your time — English 101 is a big batch of unlucky. You have the dangerously-bright students, kids too bored to slay the college entrance exam and skip 101. These are business and finance majors to a fault, future Moby Dicks of capitalism. …](https://daniel-williams737.medium.com/if-youre-only-as-old-as-you-feel-i-am-dead-feb6614f42f1?source=user_profile---------3-------------------------------) [Teaching](https://medium.com/tag/teaching?source=user_profile--------------------teaching--------------------) [4 min read](https://daniel-williams737.medium.com/if-youre-only-as-old-as-you-feel-i-am-dead-feb6614f42f1?source=user_profile---------3-------------------------------) ![If You’re Only As Old As You Feel, I Am Dead](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/741d874d0a98c89ba3c8aa0140ddf919e17a118b38241f4362b8a188f42ab91e.jpg) If You’re Only As Old As You Feel, I Am Dead ![If You’re Only As Old As You Feel, I Am Dead](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/691993343d3c8ac0f480be85f948566d9bdfccc6415b464486b7e0b233fc06c8.jpg) If You’re Only As Old As You Feel, I Am Dead [Published in **Human Parts**](https://humanparts.medium.com/?source=user_profile---------4-------------------------------) [·Feb 5](https://daniel-williams737.medium.com/rage-rage-against-the-dying-of-the-snow-day-d7334ebd3a81?source=user_profile---------4-------------------------------) [Rage, Rage Against The Dying Of The Snow Day](https://daniel-williams737.medium.com/rage-rage-against-the-dying-of-the-snow-day-d7334ebd3a81?source=user_profile---------4-------------------------------) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Damn you, remote learning — You grew up in snowy lands, hating school as nature intended. Therefore, you know the magic of your parents’ words at your door in the morning darkness: “Snow Day!”](https://daniel-williams737.medium.com/rage-rage-against-the-dying-of-the-snow-day-d7334ebd3a81?source=user_profile---------4-------------------------------) [Schools](https://medium.com/tag/schools?source=user_profile--------------------schools--------------------) [4 min read](https://daniel-williams737.medium.com/rage-rage-against-the-dying-of-the-snow-day-d7334ebd3a81?source=user_profile---------4-------------------------------) ![Rage, Rage Against The Dying Of The Snow Day](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/28d7596ee2160b1a6361ac1091befa577573892b308110eaa57f9caa33e2c915.jpg) Rage, Rage Against The Dying Of The Snow Day ![Rage, Rage Against The Dying Of The Snow Day](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/fb30b1db0a36ca828ce065c5897d68174180c18928a799213c7a416a7019aaf3.jpg) Rage, Rage Against The Dying Of The Snow Day [Jan 29](https://daniel-williams737.medium.com/hold-not-thy-horses-702228040d63?source=user_profile---------5-------------------------------) [Hold Not Thy Horses](https://daniel-williams737.medium.com/hold-not-thy-horses-702228040d63?source=user_profile---------5-------------------------------) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Be young with all your might — During our last snowstorm, a jeep slid to a stop in the middle of the street beside my house. A youth, a dude, emerged and used his sweatshirt sleeve to dig a small seeing-eye hole in the deep snow on his windshield. He hopped back in and drove away.](https://daniel-williams737.medium.com/hold-not-thy-horses-702228040d63?source=user_profile---------5-------------------------------) [College](https://medium.com/tag/college?source=user_profile--------------------college--------------------) [5 min read](https://daniel-williams737.medium.com/hold-not-thy-horses-702228040d63?source=user_profile---------5-------------------------------) ![Hold Not Thy Horses](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/0ed58de5d5af73007625dfcd5175719dd9812aefab5cb63aa821e6ffb67344e0.jpg) Hold Not Thy Horses ![Hold Not Thy Horses](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/2b7c913e28f0e2173d8c02d2df66215fe5361e097576e0d0c13cf15dcb090477.jpg) Hold Not Thy Horses [Jan 22](https://daniel-williams737.medium.com/the-great-storytelling-secret-b2e0511ca5b2?source=user_profile---------6-------------------------------) [The Great Storytelling Secret](https://daniel-williams737.medium.com/the-great-storytelling-secret-b2e0511ca5b2?source=user_profile---------6-------------------------------) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [I planned to share it on my deathbed, but you can’t wait — We all read badly-written novels. We know they’re bad after the first couple paragraphs, but we keep reading. We read to the bitter end. Why? Because not even the worst writing in the world is strong enough to stop the power of story. This is great news for the worst…](https://daniel-williams737.medium.com/the-great-storytelling-secret-b2e0511ca5b2?source=user_profile---------6-------------------------------) [Writing](https://medium.com/tag/writing?source=user_profile--------------------writing--------------------) [9 min read](https://daniel-williams737.medium.com/the-great-storytelling-secret-b2e0511ca5b2?source=user_profile---------6-------------------------------) ![The Great Storytelling Secret](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/655df0cc68f69faa66fd4b7796d129e2953359816827acfdb2019f284320059e.jpg) The Great Storytelling Secret ![The Great Storytelling Secret](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/d864af98fa5e35d7f85dce902ac69402a5fd03cbcdf92e1d5938666bee67567a.jpg) The Great Storytelling Secret [Jan 15](https://daniel-williams737.medium.com/you-bring-out-the-divorce-in-me-871639486ca3?source=user_profile---------7-------------------------------) [You Bring Out The Divorce In Me](https://daniel-williams737.medium.com/you-bring-out-the-divorce-in-me-871639486ca3?source=user_profile---------7-------------------------------) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Aging out of love — I love airports. Thousands of people, and I’m not required to talk to any of them. I can just watch and listen, unharmed. I was doing this one time, walking the beige mile and studying hot weirdos, when I passed by an older couple and caught a piece of their…](https://daniel-williams737.medium.com/you-bring-out-the-divorce-in-me-871639486ca3?source=user_profile---------7-------------------------------) [Love](https://medium.com/tag/love?source=user_profile--------------------love--------------------) [5 min read](https://daniel-williams737.medium.com/you-bring-out-the-divorce-in-me-871639486ca3?source=user_profile---------7-------------------------------) ![You Bring Out The Divorce In Me](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/e8a7d36a5f0494782bc715934e034671dcf6aa7d09e1d5252f34fc4de8143d78.jpg) You Bring Out The Divorce In Me ![You Bring Out The Divorce In Me](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/ea4d35307d0a09b76ca071629a828cd52bbbc9f63971a604e1f0947c903dfcd1.jpg) You Bring Out The Divorce In Me [Jan 8](https://daniel-williams737.medium.com/when-blue-for-non-erotic-reasons-bc7ed6808203?source=user_profile---------8-------------------------------) [When Blue For Non-Erotic Reasons](https://daniel-williams737.medium.com/when-blue-for-non-erotic-reasons-bc7ed6808203?source=user_profile---------8-------------------------------) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Or, The Day I Almost Died Of Fame — In graduate school, I lost my teaching assistantship and all my financial support because I didn’t open one effing email. I don’t remember the effing details, but the school sent out a message to all its grad students, saying something like, “If you want to keep your teaching assistantship and…](https://daniel-williams737.medium.com/when-blue-for-non-erotic-reasons-bc7ed6808203?source=user_profile---------8-------------------------------) [College](https://medium.com/tag/college?source=user_profile--------------------college--------------------) [8 min read](https://daniel-williams737.medium.com/when-blue-for-non-erotic-reasons-bc7ed6808203?source=user_profile---------8-------------------------------) ![When Blue For Non-Erotic Reasons](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/756afbd6752e5cdb2569b23aa3851fed34e27938f71adc915be88c5a0c946c63.jpg) When Blue For Non-Erotic Reasons ![When Blue For Non-Erotic Reasons](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/22de764d43058ca25c5292ca66b646fd89d4538c43786fb192ab582371801854.jpg) When Blue For Non-Erotic Reasons [Jan 2](https://daniel-williams737.medium.com/the-dead-we-hide-behind-our-faces-c80ee384db5d?source=user_profile---------9-------------------------------) [The Dead We Hide Behind Our Faces](https://daniel-williams737.medium.com/the-dead-we-hide-behind-our-faces-c80ee384db5d?source=user_profile---------9-------------------------------) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [How close am I to lost worlds? — I worked at a little bookstore in Louisiana during college, a store famous for the cats who roamed freely up and down the aisles, using their tails to touch customers, delivering blessings and curses.](https://daniel-williams737.medium.com/the-dead-we-hide-behind-our-faces-c80ee384db5d?source=user_profile---------9-------------------------------) [Death](https://medium.com/tag/death?source=user_profile--------------------death--------------------) [8 min read](https://daniel-williams737.medium.com/the-dead-we-hide-behind-our-faces-c80ee384db5d?source=user_profile---------9-------------------------------) ![The Dead We Hide Behind Our Faces](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/f8b22cf253c1487af7a01a648c8e9e78126c47271200bf451ca898a4d0e943f3.jpg) The Dead We Hide Behind Our Faces ![The Dead We Hide Behind Our Faces](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/496697101fc1da00e984ec213443bac8137a1b64a03e3c621f59a77778e000a1.jpg) The Dead We Hide Behind Our Faces --- *Originally published on [我在这里等你！](https://paragraph.com/@0xed669d95340e3e66d4134f1b6c74ab3c82643c33/daniel)*