Below is a link to an essay I read today in the New Yorker dealing with a novelist and his lies. It resonates with me on many levels and raises some very interesting questions about race, culture, and identity in our modern age and very mixed American society. It is intriguing to me because the … More Some thoughts and questions about identity
TL;DR – pity sucks and hurts everyone involved. Shorter read? You can skip my personal manifesto at the top and get to stuff that might help you by starting where it says, “That said, let me get a bit more academic here for others having the same problem as myself.” * * * * * … More On Pity and Why You Should Be Done With It.
So let’s talk about ethics here for a bit, okay? Well, ethics and morals. They are different despite the usage of both words as synonyms here in the US. Here is how I define the words for clarity. Ethics are the official rules, more or less, and morals, the unofficial ones more or less. And … More Do or do not? Sometimes trying is best.
TL;DR ::: Break time. Quick tips at bottom! My life has been a complete mess. I need an exercise in discipline. As such, I have decided to revisit my SOJ roots and observe Lent. I will be turning off my social media for the duration and concentrating on health, hearth, and family. I will accept … More Social media break.
Further book research. An intriguing phrase in a book by Thomas Beddoes sent me off down a literary rabbit hole. And among other places this phrase shows up as early in literature as the Epic of Gilgamesh. “To give King Death ass’s ears.” It means to make light of darkness, even Death. It means to … More Book Research: King Death has Ass’s Ears.
Seeing a lot of people on various social media platforms commenting on vaccines from a place of totalitarianism paranoia, and that is worrisome. It’s also bullshite. It jumps straight into the “…but Hitler…” logical fallacy. Consider the facts. This rabid frothing from the antivaccine/antimask/COVID hoax community ignores a good deal of actual history as well. … More Vaccination, epidemiology, and history…quick drop. In depth later.
So here is a learn from me PSA: I deleted my online pen pal group tonight because I apparently bought the Brooklyn Bridge. And it makes me really sad that I have to share this. Trust is such a big deal especially right now and people are feeling lonely and vulnerable. A friend of mine … More I got scammed, this is how you can avoid it.
So yes, folks, I did my FIRST zoom interview/lecture as a creative writer. For clarity this was not a job interview but a “TV” interview. It is going to be uploaded into the cloud for an educational series. So, okay then, the first things I did were things I always do. I considered the topic … More Things I learned doing my FIRST zoom interview/lecture
IMPORTANT NOTE: Writing and Lyme related posts will continue but>>>>>> So here in this post, I intend to make a deep confession and an honest one. After my last near death experience, I became something of a coward. No, not something of, that too, gilds the lily. I became a coward. Me. A staunch intellectual, … More A Great Hiatus?
Just a quick few lines here. It has been forever since I updated this last and largely because I was going through a period of suicidal depression wherein I was letting literally everything else slide. I suppose I could write a good deal more about that – about the doctors and tests and hospital visits … More Whelp, the holidays are here, let’s have some bloody cheer.
EVOLVING MALE 