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Tag: writing

  • The Games

    I just finished listening to the latest installment of the Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins, and I have thoughts. While the first three books focused on Katniss Everdeen and her heroic journey, this book looks back at the formative years of Coriolanus Snow and his slide into villainy. His character in the first three…

  • 2022

    Time to update your New Year’s resolutions.

  • Canceled

    So many cultural things that I grew up with have been canceled. I agree than lots of songs and shows in the 1980s and 1990s were trash, but others have been deleted, not because of problematic content, but because of problematic creators. The Cosby Show for example was a staple of most households for a…

  • The New Jonestown

    Through radio and the internet people have been falling down the rabbit hole—a virtual cult if you will.

  • Aesop’s Fabulous Fables

    So well known are these tales that we use them as shorthand for the point we are making.

  • Infamous History

    “Mom, how do you spell gangster?”

  • Names & Faces

    College administrators complete to get famous faces in front of their students and in the headlines.

  • The Tale of Two Walls

    The purpose is not for contemplative reflection for sins of times past, but urgency for a current community crisis. “Never again” is right now.

  • Eighth Grade Essay

    It’s rare that something on television or in the movies really grips me lately. I see people running around and hear things that are supposed to be shocking or some new view of reality, but really it seems like a lot of people just vying for attention. But I saw a movie a few days…