Archive for Personal
On keeping and not keeping things
Some notes on exoticizing real-world cultures in sf
One voice lifts another
What does forgiveness mean to you?
The lifeboat scenario
My 9th-grade English teacher, Mr. Eymil, gave us a surprise in-class writing assignment one day in 1983. He told us...
Anxiety and Lexapro
Here's the short version: I've been having a hard time with anxiety for a long time. A previous attempt at...
Some things nobody knows about me
I was talking on the phone the other day, and it occurred to me that it's possible that nobody knows...
The Song and the guy named Jed
I have no idea whether the new movie The Song is worth seeing, but I was mildly intrigued by the...
Seven things about me
There's this thing going around on Facebook, where you post some number of pieces of information about yourself that other...
My best Halloween costumes
A friend asked on Facebook what were the best Halloween costumes we'd worn. I started to reply there, but this...
The sharpest knife in the world
(Potentially triggery for assault stuff.) The following was originally in the middle of my previous entry, about my brief visit...