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.
The Makings of a Hero
We would be poorer without heros, and yet they would be nothing without us.
Enola and the Case of the Complicated Nostalgia
I’d scour the library then return home with an armload of feminist literary retellings.
