Category: Life
Colonize Me
The Mega Manila Urban Population is about 26 million people. It is one of the densest populations in the world, about five times more dense ...
I’m the Foreigner
It’s funny when you travel around the world and feel more at home than you do at home. Here, people smile and nod. They bring ...
The Global South
You won’t read this because time zones. I fail to sleep in Dubai. I thought you couldn’t drink here… I was wrong. The Global South. ...
The Power in Our Hands
Know what a factorial is? It’s a mathematical function often used in statistical representations, denoted by a ‘!’. That’s right, an exclamation mark. You writers ...
Forgotten Songs of the 80s
The 80s were a strange decade. I think back on them as innocent and free, but that’s only because I wasn’t there. The 80s are ...
9 Reasons Why Wordle is Like Sex
It’s Fun Wordle is fun. Sex is fun. ‘nuff said. You Feel Compelled to Do It Every Day… …but this doesn’t mean that you have ...
You Cannot Have Kids and Be a Writer
For my friend Matticus, who is raising a young family and striving to write at the same time. I have quite a few kids. Let’s ...
Novel Review: The Dime, by Mark Paxson
Mark Paxson is an independent self-published author, and, I might add, a champion of independent authors. Trent Lewin, on the other hand, is completely unpublished ...
Cloud Cuckoo Land (A. Doerr): A Hopelessly Incoherent, Aspirational Review
What’s different about modern novels? We’re segmented into genres, commercial tracks that allow for reasonable market placement and expectation of returns. This is the way ...
Dune 1984 vs. Dune 2021
The context to Dune is fairly simple. It’s a sprawling space epic, a science fiction version of Lord of the Rings. But it’s much bigger ...