The Breaking Open
Mary FifieldMusings, opinions, and art that embrace uncertainty in this intensely upside-down world.
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Don't lie back and think of the singularity.
Do as I say, not as I do. Photo credit: friend and fellow jungle trekker Kelly Mullaney.
I was late to the game on the controversy over a prize-winning short story that is widely believed to be wholly AI-generated. By the time the news rea...
Twenty Years of Inconvenient Truths
A vibrant artistic reminder on the bathroom door of The Template cafe, San Diego.
Twenty years ago, give or take a month, I went to a matinee showing of the newly released An Inconvenient Truth in Oakland, California, where I lived at the...
Welcome home, fellow Homo sapiens
Zero gravity hug, Artemis II crew. Image courtesy of NASA, 2026.
I don’t know where I was psychically or existentially when NASA’s Artemis II mission was announced back in 2023, but I definitely missed the segment from the Late Show with S...
Petrosexuals and Marlboro Men
Oil rigs in their sepia-toned glory. Screenshot of Landman, Paramount +
Two conversations had been bobbing about in my brain: one with Hammy about the apparent trend that men care less about the climate crisis because traits like caring an...
An Accidental Pursuit of Fellowship
Photo by Jeffrey Hamilton on Unsplash
The first time was December 2022. Late pandemic, mid-Biden, thirteen months since Hammy and I had moved back to San Diego after years living in other places. I had an unusual longing to sing Christmas...
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Fiction writer, community philanthropy practitioner, traveler, Spanish speaker, fan of planet Earth.
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