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  • The Book Beside the Modem

    Waiting for the Page to Arrive My first experiences of the internet in the late 1990s began with a sound. Before a webpage could appear, the computer had to connect through a modem attached to the telephone line. A sequence…

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  • The House Built by Writing

    The Beginning Without a Blueprint When I started Tom’s Blog in 2019, I chose one of the most familiar templates available on WordPress.com. Anyone who had visited other blogs on the platform would probably have recognized it. There was nothing…

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  • The Faith We Sang Together

    The Hymns That Remember Us Only after many decades do we begin to understand what certain songs have carried for us. A traditional hymn may have seemed ordinary when we sang it every Sunday morning. It was part of the…

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Tom Yonashiro is a writer with a background in philosophy, religion, technology, and cybersecurity marketing. He writes to translate life’s complexities into meaning.