Aislyn's Oak Tree About Aislyn’s Oak Tree 15 Feb 2022 The name of this blog probably seems fairly arbitrary to many of you. The words themselves are nothing complicated - "Celtic" and "Riverside". Most people will have at least a…
Uncategorized The Fates of Twitter and Celtic Riverside Are Inexorably Linked 17 Nov 202218 Nov 2022 A simple but painful truth rarely acknowledged is that I do not have a voice. My Twitter following is small. Celtic Riverside has a very limited readership. Even in my…
Critical Thought… She-Hulk: Is Marvel Failing Feminism? 22 Oct 2022 I won't name her, but YouTube decided to hit me with a video the other day about how woke superhero Hollywood was failing women. It begins with an article supporting…
Anxiety… The Ambages – How a Fictional Family Became the Cornerstone of My Mind 21 Oct 2022 Ambage: noun - an archaic term for intentional ambiguity or indirect ways or proceedings (usually presented as the plural "ambages"; Middle English via French and Latin) Intentional ambiguity is not…
#HeForShe… In Which One is Critical of Gender Critical Gender 10 Oct 2022 I saw a Twitter post the other day asking why the recent Jon Stewart piece was doing everything with respect to women rather than men. It seemed like an odd…
Aislyn's Oak Tree Two Droplets (placeholder title) 6 Oct 20226 Oct 2022 A rose petal sheds a tear onto a leaf below The perfumed orb catching the light as it dances blithely over the veins And I, a dewdrop, watching, enchanted, enraptured…
Critical Thought PINK (Simple Admiration for a Complex Colour) 4 Oct 2022 I grew up in a world where pink was very much a girl colour. It appeared almost as though a warning to boys, the way cautionary signage indicates a hazard…
Anxiety… Economic Anxiety 2 Sep 2022 This begins as the tale of three colleagues - a devout Republican, the guy who became president of the Young Democrats for the county, and me. All three of us…
Writing Thee WIP 3 Aug 2022 Now seems like a good enough time to share some of the vaguest details with people. First, I have no delusions about becoming popular off my work. Even if it…
Anxiety An Existential Crisis – Part II: Religion 21 Jul 2022 I struggle with matters of faith. Faith, by its definition, requires a component beyond verification and my mind simply does not work that way. One of my biggest questions with…
Anxiety An Existential Crisis – Part I: Economics 21 Jul 2022 For better or worse, I am going to start off with capitalism. I don't know that it's correct to argue that capitalism is the culprit for all of the ills…
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