Archive - T Scott

Do I contradict myself?

May 22 •

T. Scott Plutchak

April 2025

Protecting the Innocent

“No person shall be ...

Apr 19 •

T. Scott Plutchak

Hope Is A Muscle

Fear and anger will not defeat me

Apr 11 •

T. Scott Plutchak

March 2025

What Emerges From the Wreckage

I’m trying to come to grips with the collapse of the American experiment.

Mar 27 •

T. Scott Plutchak

Wedding Stories, Episode 1, Episode 7

Mar 7 •

T. Scott Plutchak

January 2025

Grief & Gratitude

“It’s not fair!” The battlecry of those raging they’ve been unjustly afflicted.

Jan 3 •

T. Scott Plutchak

November 2024

Honestly, I do not want to be writing about politics in America. I’ve got a bunch of cool fragments just waiting to be turned into essays. There’s the…

Nov 17, 2024 •

T. Scott Plutchak

October 2024

The Visitors (Bread & Circuses)

Honestly, I was shocked when Hannah Arendt showed up. I was getting to the end of that last essay, the one about the Undecideds. After three weeks of…

Oct 29, 2024 •

T. Scott Plutchak

(I don’t typically write about politics here, but these days it can be hard to find headspace for anything else).

Oct 11, 2024 •

T. Scott Plutchak

September 2024

(When I first posted this, back in early September, I broke it into two parts, concerned about the length.

Sep 8, 2024 •

T. Scott Plutchak

May 2024

They’ve never let me live it down. Hah. As if it’s my fault that they thought a “Set List” was a list set in stone. My fault that they arranged their…

May 17, 2024 •

T. Scott Plutchak

Boutch's harmonica

Boutch’s Harmonica At the Armadillo Ball we’re sitting at a table off to the side when Boutch looms up behind me. Usually his eyes are glimmering with a…

May 10, 2024 •

T. Scott Plutchak

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