what does an average middleclass person in the developed world have to really fight for? stand up for? do capital-S Something about? plenty ...

the final round : Dungeons & Dragons (5e) vs The One Ring (2e)   in the beginning, along with a lot of scribbly scattered notes and spr...

quarterfinals match 3: World of Darkness vs Vampire: the Masquerade 5e since opening match 1 , our zombie-plagued World of Darkness chro...

back in the day, I thought I'd never want to teach. and then I realized that in some ways, everything everyone does can involve a layer ...

this draft has been waiting some time for this day. I'd been thinking for a while to rework it into a post, but something always got in ...

the third section of the Audre Lorde collection I've been reading is about two hundred pages of poems. here, for this Friday evening, ar...

an old facebook friend of mine, a few days ago, shared this Martin Luther King Jr. quote about the inability of violence to bring peace . ...

sometimes you hear about the dearth of brilliant public intellectuals these days. where is our 21st-century Marshall McLuhan or Noam Chom...

I learned just today that the German word halten can mean in English to hold or to stop . this seems profound for some reason. the sente...

the local public library is doing free Monday night yoga this summer, led by one of the proprietors of this local yoga place that I haven...

at some point about a year ago, in the midst of my dissertation labors, I wrote down the in-progress word counts (and page counts) of all fi...

this week I deactivated my 15-year-old facebook account. why? many reasons. mainly, it's a new year, time for trying new things. fac...

in the mornings I put on a podcast and wash whatever dishes have accumulated over the previous evening. it is a nice routine for when I...

this is a fascinating and enlightening and somehow very important thing to note, I think: "...the platform replaces labor that was p...

we searched out an audio-short-story with which to pass the time on our way to and from Chicago several weeks ago. it was "The Call of ...

in downtown Lafayette, there is this new sculpture-statue-thing. it's tall and shiny. two metal figures on tip-toes are holding an inter...