Writer * Worldbuilder * Life Coach
Welcome (Back) to College! (Or This Universe?)
Welcome to a new year of college! (or Life!) (Or a year in this Prison Universe if you accidentally got trapped here by Dr. Strange – Let’s make the best of it.) I’ve been away myself on other planets in other worlds. Specifically trapped…
Contemporary YA: Shut Up This is Seriously Good (A Quick Review)
I’m in the process of brushing up on my awareness of Contemporary YA books (it’s good to know what else is in the market right now that other readers are loving – so I can say readers who liked X, Y, and Z will…
Mysteries Uncovered – Analysis of the Beginning of Rebecca Ross’s Divine Rivals.
Analysis, for those who don’t know, is about making sense of what something is – why it works, or doesn’t. Imagine a Renaissance person (women are part of this Renaissance Analysis Party, too) kicking tires on a 2020 Nissan Altima, wondering if it’s a…
Barbara Brown Taylor Shares Her Gifts: A Fabulous Writer Can Make You Think
First, read this: The only clear line I draw these days is this: when my religion tries to come between me and my neighbor, I will choose my neighbor… Jesus never commanded me to love my religion. – Barbara Brown Taylor, from Holy Envy…
The Atlantic Scores Again: American Left and Centrists Can Learn from French Progressives and Centrists.
Read this story from the Atlantic’s Thomas Chatterton Williams about what happened this July in France when problems with a growing Far Right movement (think anti-immigrant, pro-business, smaller-government, but much more complex than that) threatened everything. France, at first, floundered. Then it didn’t. It…
Race: Voices that Matter, like Halstead’s and Hutcherson’s
People often ask me where to get started to learn more about race and the situation with institutional racism in the United States. These two articles are almost always discussed in my college writing classes for a number of reasons, but not because they…
Would You Keep Reading? (YA Novel in texts)
So I went to the library to drop off a book or three and I saw this interesting looking book on the new Young Adult table. I picked it up intending to flip through it and go, but 30 minutes later I was still…
