Hey there, 16-year-old self! Hey, 31-year-old self! You probably didn’t expect this back in 2001, but The X Files is back! With a six-episode miniseries. No way! Do Mulder and Scully finally make out? Just kidding, I’m way too embarrassed to admit that’s one of the main reasons I love…
So my mom and I went to get mani-pedis while I was home over the holidays. It’s not the first time I’ve had my nails done, although I can count the total number on the usually un-polished fingers of one hand. Apart from the discomfort of paying a stranger to…
Often, when white writers like me consider how we write about race, we discuss how we write about racialized people. We seldom (with some exceptions) discuss how we think and write about the experience we know most about: that of being white. This is not about the ludicrous idea that white…
So I think I’m ready to write about why I disagree with the Sept. 2015 Atlantic cover story, “The Coddling of the American Mind.” The authors, both university professors, claim that requests for “trigger warnings”–that is, warnings about content that may link to students’ own traumatic experiences, such as sexual…
This year, I tried for the second time to play an installment of Phoenix Wright, mystery-solving, case-winning video-game lawyer extraordinaire. And, for the second time, I gave up in frustration close to the beginning of the game. I did this even though this particular game was a crossover with Professor…
From past blog entries you may have hypothesized that I have little experience writing sexual scenes. And you’d be right. But “little” experience is not “no” experience, and I think I’ve come to terms with the potentially embarrassing part about writing about sex in fiction that real!people!I know! might read. What…
After an unfortunate screen-shattering incident around American Thanksgiving last year, I got a new phone. On Cyber Monday, I splurged on HabitBull, a habit tracker. I use the app to record my progress in habits I’d like to improve or just have a record of, like eating enough fruits and…
Happy 2016, everyone! After what I posted so recently about to-do lists, maybe I should take my own advice and not place so much importance on completing lists of resolutions. Either way, here’s my progress as of the New Year.
Hey there, 2015! You were pretty kind to me. You taught me so much! Things like…