(I was just too tired after work yesterday to write something. So I'm doing it before work today, because this is important to me.)
------------------------------------------------------------As someone in the journalism field, boy oh boy do I have opinions about “fake news.” The things that are called “fake news” are just stories that the current ( Read more... )

Ezekiel 36:26a A new heart I will give you, and a new spirit I will put within you

I spent the bulk of my day at a virtual ReconcilingWorks training on Becoming a Reconciling Congregation, so of course I am going to frame my devotional through that lens ( Read more... )

I read an article in The Atlantic today that made me openly weep. Elaine Godfrey opens “ Iowa Is What Happens When Government Does Nothing” like this:

Nick Klein knew the man wasn’t going to make it through the night. So the 31-year-old nurse at the University of Iowa ICU put on his gown, his gloves, his mask, and his face shield. He went into the ( Read more... )

Today’s reflection is about decision fatigue, so I’m beginning by giving an explanation of it. Basically, during the pandemic our lives are more complicated. We have to make a million decisions each day: is it safe to do XYZ, what food is in the house, how much screen time should we limit ourselves to, should I exercise today?- yes, but do I want ( Read more... )

I first came across this article, " Love in the Time of Chronic Illness," in The Atlantic way back last year, Tweeted it as a bookmark to myself, and vowed to come back and comment on it. Obviously, it's taken a while, and I don't know if I would have done so were it not for the fact that I am finding myself in just such a situation. I haven't had ( Read more... )

cross-posted from my class blogJohn Burroughs opens his essay “The Art of Seeing Things” with lofty pronouncements about the importance of love. Maybe not the most important part of his essay, on the whole, but that is what he starts with. He then goes on to explain that to truly know nature requires one to love it, for love “sharpens the eye, the ( Read more... )

I know it's almost Valentine's Day, and everyone is thinking about love, commitment, relationships. Or else protesting the holiday and celebrating Single's Awareness Day. Regardless, romance is on people's minds ( Read more... )

Wow, it has been far too long since I have written anything. Well, if you count the Murtagh fic then it's really only 2 weeks, but I don't really count that because it's not even close to finshed, not even one chapter. And even so, I remember a time when I'd be posting something once a week... I should get back into linebylineAt any rate, this little ( Read more... )

I haven't posted much writing lately. It's kind of really odd. I guess I've been doing mostly academic writings for school... meh. I shall have to change that.

This is a piece about a memory of mine involving my crush back when he was actually decent. I wrote it for linebyline, with the line being "better than it was", but the version you see here is ( Read more... )

Another poem from my chapbook. The idea came to me in the middle of the night, as many poems do. I was actually doing just what is described in the poem ( Read more... )