November 9, 2016
The professor in charge of my primary tutorial would, in what conservative pundits would later call “a total snowflake move,” offer to move back the due date on that week’s essay.
The Peace of Christ Be with Me
But writing about my anger also moved me to remember that there are no clean lines to be drawn here between villains and heroes.
The Presidential Debate, a Cat Named “Grudge,” and Star Trek: Discovery
I should have known I couldn’t escape politics by watching Star Trek, the first major American show to show an interracial kiss.
Expression in Balance
Don’t cause someone else harm. That sounds like a really good place to start.
Restaurant Diaries
My first shift. Spilled a glass of Sprite and dropped a basket of onion rings within the first 30 minutes. Surprisingly, they let me stay.
Milk for Fairies
In the failure of dogma, try generosity.
The Delights and Travails of Fall Camping in the UP
I won’t say we pulled half-burned logs out of firepits to salvage them for our own use, but I won’t deny it either.
After Midnight
Almost despite myself, I’m finding that I do enjoy the quiet, the darkness.
Wolverine Watchmen, HBO’s Watchmen, and the Politics of White Resentment
Law and order, but only certain laws and certain orders.
Preservation
As the days now grow shorter and the nights darker, I try to let the metaphor of autumn give me hope instead of melancholy.
