Personal Influencers: Part II – Celebrities 17 Dec 2019 Find the Introduction to this series here. We all have people to whom we look for inspiration, advice, or guidance. Some of those people are known to us personally: family,…
Personal Influencers: Part I – An Introduction 16 Dec 201916 Dec 2019 Welcome to a short series on Celtic Riverside inspired by a recent post about films that influence my writing. My work on fiction seems to be gaining steam, and in…
Personal Being One Man’s Personal Account on Sex 15 Dec 201921 Sep 2020 Sex, being such an obvious component of man-woman relationships, is a topic that occurs broadly when I examine gender inequality: the power dynamics, the social expectations, and so forth. Rarely…
Personal Open Letter on Trust Issues 27 Nov 2019 "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 fraud is not nice…
Mental Health… The Pitiless Effect of Passion 16 Nov 201918 Dec 2019 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 while contemplating love, and…
#HeForShe… I Might Be a Terrible Feminist, and I’m Too Afraid of What I Might Find Out 12 Nov 2019 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 of the last ten…
Mental Health… Who Isn’t Behind the Curtain? (Dunning-Kruger Effect, Impostor Syndrome, and a World of Uncertainty) 25 Jul 2019 I take IQ tests as an antidote to boredom. A score over 130 is routine - sometimes exceeding 140 or 150 depending on the test. No, I am not a…
Mental Health… Free Will and Determinism (in the Digital Age) 9 Jul 201917 Jul 2019 **I wanted to provide a specific background and foundation for this piece, hence its length. For those interested in the core of this piece and not wanting to waste time,…
#HeForShe… The Demisexual Feminist 4 Jun 2019 I learned a new word recently! Hooray! Demisexual. Feel free to Google the term, the top results are safe for work. What one will find is various lists of criteria…
#HeForShe… Aesthetics and Human Attraction – a Personal Account 9 May 2019 I want to discuss what I consider a riskier topic today - attraction. What better way for a socially anxious, aspiring ally to begin than to derail the entire discussion…
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