#HeForShe… Because (An Open Letter to the Daughter I May Never Meet) [Redux] 17 Jan 201916 Apr 2019 Dear Alice Kathryn, Hey there, Ally Kat. You know, even before I met your mother I had dreams about you. Your mom and I would be laying on a couch…
#HeForShe… Feminism in the World of Disney 25 Jul 201814 Mar 2019 One of the areas that serves as a foundation for gender and race relation discussion is pop culture, and my childhood, like many, involved Disney and Pixar. Today, I want…
anxiety… My Mental Health Diagnoses 16 Jun 202115 Jun 2021 Today is a more clinical post. While this blog explores the nature of living with mental health issues on a personal, anecdotal level, I thought I would take one post…
OCPD One Man’s OCPD: Part I – An Atheist’s* Faith 11 Jun 2021 This blog addresses the topic of OCPD frequently and often with anecdotes to highlight the lived experience of the disorder. The thing about OCPD though, like many mental illnesses, is…
Miscellaneous The Paradox of Fiction 20 Feb 202110 Jun 2021 It's a moving scene. All of the still-alive Avengers join together at the house for a send-off of their friend. Tony Stark, played by Robert Downey, Jr., had died. The…
Social Contract Victory Defeated US: How Winning Became the Ultimate American Problem 7 Jan 2021 I am not much of a Republican or a Democrat. My ideology is at times offensive to both party lines and so I could not imagine success representing Americans with…
Social Contract Thumbs Up, America 7 Nov 2020 Sorry, friends. I am going to be a downer today. I mean, I'm a downer every day but I try to take measures to conceal that from others. Those closest…
Critical Thought Do They Know It’s Christmas? [The Rules for a Christmas Movie] 21 Oct 2020 Next Saturday is Halloween, and if I have learned anything these last few years it's that this means Christmas begins on Sunday. Some window displays already feature decorations, and holiday-themed…
Social Contract My Truth and The Truth 28 Sep 2020 We are currently attending a training through work that discusses multiple aspects of communication. One of the concepts that arose during the training is the need for people to speak…
Mental Health & Pop Culture Sokovia Accords 26 Sep 202010 Jun 2021 This is just for fun today. I have mentioned my Chris Evans/Captain America awakening in past entries (in short, that I knew little of Cap in the past, but the…
Personal… The Fog of War 23 Sep 2020 We face a lot of problems today. Some are holdovers from prior generations, others are unique to the modern world. A major part of me still believes that people, in…
Uncategorized Where Do We Begin? 16 Sep 2020 A key witness in the case that ICE displayed a pattern of abuse and harassment towards detained people was deported earlier this week. I do not want to go into…
