I am frequently brought to feelings of frustration and sadness when people believe, do, or say things that are everyday and simply not true. In this article, I address seven of these. 1. Recycling clothing, paper, plastic, and so on is… Read More ›
Thoughts and Perspectives
I’ve chosen to only use the category “thoughts and perspectives” for two reasons. One, having a hierarchy of categories would get overly complex, as everything I write about could fit a variety of categories and having multiple categories per post would too confusing. Two, everything I write about is summed up with the words “thoughts and perspectives.”
Drugs, War, and Nazi Germany
Last night I finished reading Norman Ohler’s fascinating and best-selling Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich (2017, translated by Shaun Whiteside). Ohler describes the relationships between Adolf Hitler and drugs, Nazi soldiers and drugs, and German society and drugs. In addition,… Read More ›
Mark Zuckerberg, Rhetoric, and the “Huge Healthy Glacier”
Rhetoric always matters. Just days after scientists (science is real!) announced that a trillion ton glacier broke off of Antarctica, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg made this calculated post: From a perspective of intertextuality, it’s only real purpose can be to falsely… Read More ›
Snapshots of Life – My Grandmother’s Paintings Part 5 of 5
Finally, I am delighted to share the fifth and final collection of my grandmother’s paintings: Snapshots of Life. All pictures were taken by me with my Canon EOS Rebel T5 EF-S. Part one (Seasons), part two (Trails and Flowers), part three (Water and… Read More ›
Memories of the Country – My Grandmother’s Paintings Part 4
At last! Part four, Memories of the Country is ready. The fifth and final part of this series where I share my grandmother’s paintings will be published very soon. All pictures were taken by me with my Canon EOS Rebel T5 EF-S. Part one… Read More ›
Creating and Omitting History, Fundamentalist Nationalism, and the A Beka History Textbooks
I first started officially drafting this article on August 7, 2015! During the past two years, I have constantly struggled with how to approach the issues raised in this post. I am always interested in how different institutions teach History,… Read More ›
21 Assumptions Revealed by 21 Words and Pieces of Plastic Claiming to Support Soldiers
We seldom stop and think about how much we assume and how much our world assumes of us. In this blog article, I do a detailed analysis of such a situation working form the following display. I’m not pointing to… Read More ›
