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  • Update

    I am in the midst of a move, so it’s been hard to finish some of the posts I have planned. There’s a couple of posts I hope to finish writing concerning philosophy, identity, and world-building. I also have a post on music and writing, and a post about life in general. I just need…

  • Expressing oneself is a revolutionary act

    My partner, who is an artist, discussed with me the other day the types of artists. There is the artist who is creating art with an agenda, who is often a political activist and their medium is art. But then there is the artist that simply creates art to express themselves. My partner discussed how…

  • There is an unspoken epidemic

    There is an unspoken epidemic in our country. Since January 1, 2015, there has been sixteen trans people, fifteen of them trans women, murdered in the US and one in Canada. Majority were trans women of color. Both race and gender play a factor in the deaths. The media often presents them as a novelty…

  • News from Pluto!

    The New Horizons spacecraft has reached pluto and is sending back data! Here are some articles that highlight some of the more interesting photos to be released as of today (7/15/2015): NASA: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/new-horizons-spacecraft-displays-pluto-s-big-heart-0 http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/newhorizons/main/index.html http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/ Missions Operator Manager (MOM): http://www.themarysue.com/alice-bowman-new-horizons/ Neil Degrasse Tyson and Stephen Colbert: http://www.themarysue.com/colbert-pluto-neil-degrasse-tyson/ Bad Astronomer: http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2015/07/15/pluto_and_charon_the_first_close_up_images.html This is pretty exciting news…

  • E. Pluribus Unum — Out of Many, One

    It is Independence Day where I am, and I reflect on the original motto of the United States. It holds a bit of hope, where the idea that we are all one people and yet we are many. Acknowledging our differences and similarities all in one phrase. So why do our seals and currency no…

  • Book Review: The Telling

    The Telling by Ursula Le Guin Published by Ace Books in 2000.   Sutty comes from a tumultuous time in Earth’s history, where religion has bombed libraries and universities. She comes the planet Aka as an observer in hopes of studying a world of rich history, where equality is paramount. Except by the time her…

  • The Lines of Poetry

    Sometimes when I sit down to write a poem, I struggle with shaping the lines. Part of the issue is that I have a lot more freedom to play around with sentences, phrases, fragments, and words in of themselves than I do in prose. This freedom will often leave me wondering what works best for…

  • Personal Narratives

    We all have our own personal story, which is how we explain to others our past and who we are. In the writings of Paul Ricoeur’s Time and narrative, volume 3 (University of Chicago Press, 1990), “narrative theory is a theory of personal identity rooted in the stories we tell about ourselves.” Think for a…

  • Let’s Write: Horror Elements

    Horror can sometimes seem difficult to write, but the best horror is often distilled into several elements that comprise the major plot points of a story. Elements Pain As humans, we often abhor excessive amounts of pain, and when confronted with it, we tend toward the path of least resistance. This avoidance of pain can…

  • Reflections in Time

    Life slips away like the autumn leaves, fading into the dirt, crumbling to be made anew in spring. Our memories leave this same trail of forgotten moments, fragments — pieces that fit nowhere. Wondering all we’ve done, this deja vu, over and over– why can’t we see our past in full technicolor detail? The emotions…