“It wasn’t that I didn’t want to accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and savior; I went to a Lutheran school and I believed in God and everything. But if we had to do all this tonight, it meant we wouldn’t have time to play Kid Nicky on the Nintendo, and I was really hoping to make it to the next level.”

When I was in elementary school, I read a wonderful novel called The Egypt Game. It was about five children who decided to recreate ancient Egypt on a piece of abandoned property, and how the gods of the game integrated themselves into the children’s everyday lives in spooky and entertaining ways.
I fell in love with […]

As Technical Poet is now more or less finished and live, I’m going to be moving all my chatter about design and communication arts to that website. There will be some occasional cross-posting, as I’m sure some of my ramblings about my work will have cultural, philosophical, or ethical undertones.
In the meanwhile, enjoy the new […]

I’ve done shitty things in my life and not felt a modicum of guilt until much later. Now, here I am, a healthy, reasonably slender woman who only occasionally indulges in utter garbage eats, and I was virtually wallowing in shame. How did this happen? Why did I feel so overwhelmed with ickiness over a simple choice in dinner?