To the Future, with Love
If our imagination is wild enough and our compassion strong enough to invent radioactive kittens that will protect future generations, what other innovations might we create?
On Success
The dedication of one’s entire life to a community left their memory in a dusty room, largely visited by bored students on field trips and the occasional curious passersby.
Hallmark Christmas Movies Are Getting Me Through 2020
In Hallmark, my worst fears never wrote the ending.
Straw Into Gold
Was this an encounter with some forest guardian, a mountain sprite who hikes miles through the misty mountains and sips water at hidden springs?
Poison, Powersuits, and Blake Lively
If arsenic is a woman’s weapon—whether to kill others or to beautify oneself—Lively’s character embraces the poison.
Thanksgiving Prayer
For those who shout down ignorance even past the point of no return, who know we are less than two minutes from midnight and continue anyway.
Fantastical, Flammable Gas
Like everything magical, though, the airship project was riddled with realities.
Under the Influence of Saturn
“According to Ptolemy, “Saturn will generally produce cold in the bowels, excessive phlegm, rheumatism, emaciation, sickliness, … [and/or] cough.” Seems about right.
A Sterling Silver Ring
Maybe it’s an overindulgence in fantasy that makes all jewelry feel slightly magic.
“I Can’t Breathe”
It is my hope that we remember to use the breath we have in our lungs to speak up, to show mercy, and to act with love.
