The following are many characters from the literary world who I see a major part of myself in. I’ll leave it up to you to decide why – cheers! Ray Garraty from The Long Walk Edmund Pevensie from The Chronicles of Narnia Gene Forrester from A Separate Peace Torrey Adams […]
Yearly Archives: 2016
I realized that a previous post this week took up two of my pretend weekly subject/topic/whatevers. Which means I’m floundering around for today’s post. Maybe I should post some things I’ve found across the interwebs that I like? I stumbled across Mike Tompkins maybe two days ago. He makes singing […]
Some Recent, Favorite Discoveries
People know I love mythologies and similar ideas. “Similar ideas” encompasses quite a few fields, and I think most people use the different terms pretty interchangeably. I’ve not yet found an all-encompassing term for all of this, but I figured I’d establish basic definitions of the different terms. Myth/Mythology – […]
A Few Simple Definitions
Back in the days when I had roommates, and further back when I served a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I noticed how pitiful most guys are about food (I didn’t observe female habits in this regard); essentially, they all know protein is important but […]
An Analogy from Life
You’d think this is going along well for me. I mean, I’ve written every single day for more than half a month. You’d be wrong. You see, I’m getting into the swing of things and I’ve figured out multiple post types to continue after this month of posting. I’ve experienced […]
Self-Discovery aka Site-Discovery
Well that’s easy. Today’s my “post a great video worth watching” day. You could think that means I will make a video of myself acting a fool, but it means I look around online for something great. This week’s video comes from a famous Youtuber. It’s more on the serious […]
Let’s Talk Health
I tried The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August* on a whim, and Wow! did I get lucky. The premise: a little girl visits a dying man to tell him the world is ending and he has to prevent it. I almost didn’t get past this point because I figured […]
Book of the Week: The First Fifteen Lives of Harry ...
Every time I get the great idea of rewriting fairy tales, I rediscover the reason that I haven’t done so yet: if people wanted to read those fairy tales, they could do so by turning the same sources I’d use. Why duplicate something that’s already great? Fairy tale rewrites were […]