Hugo Schwyzer

Memoir, Culture, and Dispatches from the Cereal Aisle

Created 29 Sep 2020

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"Eira Doesn't Count:" Why My Fiancee Wants my Ex-Wife at our Wedding Next Week
03 Oct 2021 • < 1 min read • 1 0
Next Saturday, October 9, my wonderful Victoria and I will marry. The wedding will be at my family’s ranch in the Bay Area, and be performed by one of my oldest friends from elementary school. (This w...
The Mountain Troll in the Checkout Lane
30 Sep 2021 • < 1 min read • 3 0
Through my lane at the store not long ago came a mother in her mid-30s, a cart overflowing with groceries, and a dark-haired boy of five sitting on the cart shelf. “Hi, Miss” I say as she pulls up. Sh...
My Son, My Father, Football and the Hard Condition of the World
28 Sep 2021 • 9 min read • 4 0
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It Ain’t Over: Politics, Football, and the Enduring Temptation to Declare a Premature Victory
25 Sep 2021 • < 1 min read • 0 1
Three weekends ago, I was at work on a Saturday night. While I was bagging groceries, my son sent me an excited text: Cal is winning 14-0! That was the score at the end of the first quarter of my alma...
Goldilocks and the Trader Joe's Cashier
22 Sep 2021 • 4 min read • 5 2
Subscribe now I wrote a long piece to put up today, and pulled it. I fear that I become repetitive in my middle age, returning to a handful of themes that interest me enormously (my own enduring traum...
Power in the Blood: On Going Back to Selling my Plasma
20 Sep 2021 • 6 min read
This is a public post; I’d be immensely grateful if you would consider a paid subscription- and get access to regular, subscriber exclusives. Thank you! Subscribe now “The first five answers are true,...
Raising Young Diplomats in a Divided World: Pronouns, Rodeo, and Openness
15 Sep 2021 • < 1 min read • 4 4
“In math, we’re not supposed to say a line is straight. We say it’s ‘linear’ instead. My teacher says that calling anything ‘straight’ is offensive.” So reported Heloise on Saturday. My daughter is in...
Just the Due Recompense of Your Error: Gay Men, the AIDS crisis, and the Unvaccinated
13 Sep 2021 • 5 min read
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All My Ex In-Laws
12 Sep 2021 • 5 min read • 1 0
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Three Dog Night and Dixie: the Innocent, Complicit Pluralism of my Childhood Music Class
10 Sep 2021 • < 1 min read • 2 0
In these divided and angry days, I am thinking of Mr. Purdy’s music class at Carmel River School. Several generations of children passed through Bill Purdy’s music education courses in the Carmel Unif...
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