Mental Health The Sensual Perks of Being an Introvert 1 Feb 2020 This is safe for work - PG-13 at worst. Still, it has to do with discussing intimate, even sexual things and even though I am agnostic I was raised Irish…
Personal How I Became a Writer (Again) 28 Jan 2020 For years I thought of myself as a writer. Nearly two decades now. One could blame the encouragement of my teachers. While I performed well in school overall and prided…
Critical Thought How Do I Start Writing? 26 Jan 202028 Jan 2020 The following is personal advice mixed with a heavy dose of professional advice from Lajos Egri (The Art of Dramatic Writing) and Stephen King (On Writing). As an active member…
Critical Thought Three (Friendly) Complaints from a Fiction Writer to Readers 25 Jan 2020 tl;dr version: fiction and non-fiction are two separate things. I think often of this line attribute to Mark Twain: The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs…
Critical Thought Little Women (2019) “Oscar Moments” 25 Jan 2020 I learned something about film in the early days of my cinephile life. When considering the skill of an actor, I tend to regard the whole of their work in…
Critical Thought… Questions About Religion 24 Jan 2020 Some close friends and family of mine are people of faith. As an agnostic*, I admire that quality about them. The asterisk on agnostic is because, according to some, I…
Critical Thought Broad Street Bullies 23 Jan 2020 (This is a companion piece to Violence in Sports (Well, Ice Hockey).) I step onto the ice and hear the metal clack of my skate blade on the ice, the…
Uncategorized Violence in Sports (Well, Ice Hockey) 22 Jan 2020 I cannot speak to certain games like American football. Do I have an opinion? Sure. Something remains to be said about the lived experience of having played, and other than…
Mental Health… Little Women and a Lot of Anxiety 13 Jan 2020 People with anxiety know the pattern well. A thought occurs, then another and another. One's mind unwittingly goes down a rabbit hole of progressively unreasonable thoughts with the same subtlety…
#HeForShe… On Little Women: Jo the Ladybird 13 Jan 2020 This post might have gone any one of several different ways. Originally I felt compelled to write something about "Little Women" in general. After mentioning the story and characters several…
