Over on Facebook, Samuel R. Delany, answering a question in a post, offered the best and most succinct writing advice anyone has ever codified. Here, in its entirety, it is: (Read the rest at Flogging Babel)
Continue reading →https://wp.me/p3GS8V-nS This is a new podcast to me, I only learned of it today. This episode has me in tears, because of the difference between this father’s response, and that of my own father 45+ years ago. It gives me hope.
Continue reading →Songwriting is either really hard or really easy for me, and there is not much of an in-between. And most of the time, I will get woken up in the middle of the night by a phrase, or a chorus, and if I don’t get it written down RIGHT THEN, … Continue reading →
Introduction (Read This First) A style guide for writing about transgender people is practically an oxymoron. Style guides are designed to create absolutes—bringing rules and order to a meandering and contradictory patchwork quilt of a language. Yet there are no absolutes when it comes to gender. That’s why this is … Continue reading →
An Open Letter to My Parents’ Pastor JULY 13, 2017 ~ CARRIE SURBAUGH You don’t know me, and I’m not usually in the habit of writing open letters, but this is a special occasion. You’ve been the pastor of Alliance United Methodist Church for two Sundays now. Last Sunday you … Continue reading →
Source: Activism, elderhood, and public shaming I’m still trying to put my own thoughts into words over this issue, and they are not coming easily. In the meantime, here’s someone else’s point of view on the matter.
Continue reading →Trademarks are limited to the particular field of commerce, and are not a blanket proscription on using the same name. “MELBOURNE, Austrailia — Hermes is a god of communication and lies; commerce and thievery; craftiness and trickery. Some people equate him with Mercury whose eponymous planet challenges communication when it moves … Continue reading →
Some useful thoughts and tups for those who may have slipped off their path, however briefly. Do you ever fall off the spiritual wagon? Do you get excited about a new course of study or vow only to lose steam a few days later? Do you buy books about spiritual topics that you … Continue reading →
A new blog on women who veil or cover their hair. https://aveiledlife.wordpress.com/
Continue reading →Happy Monday! Let’s all celebrate the new week with a little sweet justice, in the form of a tale of woe plucked from Reddit: An anonymous dude is very upset that, after he maneuvered his “big girl” girlfriend into an open relationship so he could score with mad babes, she’s … Continue reading →
