Although White people are thought of as standard or neutral in visual design, there really is no such things as a neutral person. Visual designers need to rethink their use of ethnicity in design.

As a general rule, I am not down with mommy blogging. Not that I have anything against the mommy bloggers per se; it’s just that I am very adamantly not one of them. For one thing, that sort of content only works if one is witty and hip: I am neither, and I don’t pretend […]

Advice that I receive from good editors is advice that I can apply to all my future writing; it isn’t germane only to this particular piece. Just as my piano teacher helped me fix my Bach problem by teaching me about fractions, my editor guides me by reminding me about focus

I am concerned that introducing Biblical ethics in a high school class of this sort would only serve to legitimize certain religious agendas: to keep gay marriage illegal, to repeal abortion laws, etc. I worry that bringing the Bible into a high school setting under the pretense, genuine or not, of studying law will re-enforce the appropriateness of Biblcal ethics as basis for law when perhaps the question the students should be investigating is whether or not any one religious perspective should be the foundation for a legal system of a nation of 300 million people.