“Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own.” ― Jean Toomer This weekend I’ve came to the conclusion that I have to get someone to ban this column. I don’t know who, but nothing… Read More ›
Month: January 2022
BANNING BOOKS IN 2022
“Words. I had always loved them. I collected them like I had collected pretty stones as a child. I liked to roll words over my tongue like a lump of molten honeycomb, savoring the sweetness, the crackle, the crunch.”― Kate… Read More ›
BUILDING A RESUME
“And so the house came to be haunted by the unspoken phrase: There must be more money! There must be more money! The children could hear it all the time though nobody said it aloud.” — D.H. Lawrence, “The Rocking-Horse… Read More ›
MORE THAN JUST IDLE CHATTER
“History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place.” ― Gore Vidal, Julian I meant to start today’s piece off with a quote from Martin Luther King, but unfortunately, I failed… Read More ›
AS THE HAMSTER WHEEL TURNS
“Children accept the world as they find it; I took it for granted that all civilized men hid behind walls, and that the open country belonged to barbarians, but I also took it for granted that barbarians could never get… Read More ›
LET THE REINDEER GAMES BEGIN
“You have to know where the funny is, and if you know where the funny is, you know everything.” ― Sheila Heti, How Should a Person Be? This week marks the official return of both MNPS students and Tennessee… Read More ›
RECOGNIZING ACHIEVEMENT
“Observe yourself as you start to drift toward the internet, searching for confirmation that you suck, and then use that impetus as a signal to instead turn off your phone or internet connection and be messy in your art for… Read More ›
MEET THE NEW YEAR, SAME AS THE OLD YEAR?
“Now from where I sit this whole thing smells like its downwind from a cow barn on a hot June day!” ― Waylon Jennings 2021 is officially in the rearview mirror and we are now staring straight at the… Read More ›
Dad Gone Wild 