I Have No Place in This World
I do not think a trigger warning is needed – things are not as mortal as the title would suggest. Existential, yes, but not mortal. I…
101 Films That Influenced Me As a Writer
Some movies capture the imagination (sorry, no Star Wars on the list) and some entertain (no Disney either, even though I adore their films). The post…
Open Letter on Trust Issues
“We live in an era of fraud in America. Not just in banking, but in government, education, religion, food, even baseball… What bothers me isn’t that…
Toxic Femininity Does Not Exist
“Toxic masculinity” is shorthand for “the pressures of social expectations of traditional masculinity resulting in violence”. As I talk through the matter with intelligent people who…
OCPD Morality in the Modern Workplace (Another in a Series of Existential Crises)
Making your way in the world today takes everything you’ve got. Taking a break from all your worries sure would help a lot…okay, that’s just the…
The Pitiless Effect of Passion
Love is a common subject when writing and though this specific idea has not featured in any of my writing it does occur to me often…
I Might Be a Terrible Feminist, and I’m Too Afraid of What I Might Find Out
I have danced around this topic several times before, and perhaps this will be but another in a series of failures to fail. Over the course…
