Taking a Logic Class is Very Different from the ‘Logic’ I Learned in Debate
I’ve been taking a logic class in college. I went into it knowing that I would need to unlearn some things, and that some of it would be review materi…
Art Stardust
Non-Toxic Positivity, Revisited
I don’t know about you, but my inbox is full of bad news these days. There’s so much happening that is genuinely frightening. This timeline doesn’t ju…
Hindsight on Resistance
Whenever oppression gets bad, people find ways to resist and survive. In the present, looking back at how people resisted and survived, we know their…
Honesty in Hell
Art is always introspective. It is an expression of the internal experience in some way. To observe one's own journey through life can be purely v…
Trauma for Sale, Part 2
It is not lost on me that my first part of this two-part piece concluded with asking for support. I do not like asking for support, contrary to what s…
Trauma for Sale, Part 1
Side hustles are no longer optional. Everybody has multiple sources of income, and they aren’t adding up for the vast majority of us. Years ago, I w…
(Some) Music that Helped Me Survive this Year
Getting away from exploiting artists is practically impossible these days. If I could, I’d go to my favorite artists’ websites and name a higher price…
Human Size
Humans try so hard to conquer things beyond our capacity. We enter a world that we did not create, and leave it largely unchanged. We did not fill the oceans with water, nor space with stars. Our efforts of discovery always reveal how tiny we are in comparison to our surroundings.
Insecurity vs. Spite
The number of drafts I have saved in my 2025 folder for the blog: about 35 The number of posts I've completed and posted since the beginning of 2…
