tipping culture

So fairly recently I became a barista again. As if I hadn't already learned my lesson with the woes and mistreatment that baristas face daily from undercaffeinated customers, I also work in a suburban area now instead of in the city. The major difference that I've noticed so far is the attitude of tipping - …

gender asphyxiation

Being non-binary has left me grasping for straws on how I should exist in this binary world...It's exhausting.

Miriam Reexamined: Within the Biblical Text of Exodus

As readers, we first encounter the prophetess Miriam by name in Exodus 15:20-21: Then Miriam the prophet, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand, and all the women followed her, with timbrels and dancing. Miriam sang to them: 'Sing to the Lord, for he is highly exalted. The horse and its driver …

Inevitable

I harbor these feelings inside me knowing they'll be the death of me like lost time, my dreams end up, cutting my flesh, shattered pieces clattering on the linoleum   Infatuation is a cruel salesman charming the young until they're dizzy on their blush then, with a flick of the hand he takes from them …

Yuu Watase’s Ceres: Celestial Legend and Rethinking the Power of Femininity

Yuu Watase is an author whose work heavily permeated my adolescence. I remember first reading her series Alice 19th and falling in love with the concept of the world, and most importantly, the romantic plot. Later I read Imadoki Nowadays and grew to love Tanpopo and her antics to get a gardening club at her prestigious school. …

Miriam: A Forgotten Figure Reexamined

For my senior synthesis, I devoted my paper solely to the prophetess Miriam, who is found within the books of Exodus and Numbers. Initially, I wanted my project to focus more broadly on the five prophetesses within the OT (Miriam, Deborah, Huldah, Noadiah, and Isaiah's wife), but this proved to be overwhelming. Next I tried …

On Obsession

So this is an unusual subject, but lately I've felt like there's something wrong with me when it comes to obsession. Well, granted, I've felt this way for years. I guess it's sort of a comparison problem, but whenever I'm around others and they express their love or compulsion to do/watch things, I just can't …

On Biblical Illiteracy

So part of this post is sort of reactionary in nature, but a lot of this has been brewing within me for a few years or so. As I've mentioned previously, I studied Biblical Studies for my undergraduate degree and a good portion of this was learning the ancient languages of the Bible, and more …

Author and Works: Issues with Orson Scott Card

Recently I wrote a post concerning my thoughts about Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card. A masterful piece of science fiction, this work contains perhaps the best example of Card's unique ways of weaving stories and characters together until the book becomes almost an experience for the reader. However, while I was writing and praising …

Thoughts On: Speaker for the Dead

'The Nordic language recognizes four orders of foreignness. The first is the otherlander, or utlanning, the stranger that we recognize as being a human of our world, but of another city or country. The second is the framling...this is the stranger we recognize as human but of another world. The third is the raman, the stranger …