Dear John Mark,
Somewhere approaching six years ago, I had my first interaction with you. It was a terrifying moment in my life. I didn’t have a clue who you were, except that you were interviewing me for admittance into the Torrey Honors Institute. You introduced yourself, but I was not aware of your position in the program. I won’t go into the details of the conversation, but I do remember backing myself into a corner, saying what I realize now were naive things, and you let me into the program, for some reason or another. Read more…
Recently, I was speaking to a good friend of mine about a situation that is not important to my point today. She gave me some advice, and it was not exactly what I wanted to hear. Read more…
A friend of mine recently approached me seeking some advice. She is involved in film, and was working on a script of her own. Without any context provided, as is fairly usual for the sorts of conversations we end up having, she simply asked “How do you feel about the inclusion of the reciting of spells in a film?” Read more…
Recently, I switched a different chat program on my computer. While I enjoyed my previous one, a new laptop is as good a time as any to try out a new program. I was relatively happy with my previous one, but felt like it was best suited to the small screen of my netbook. With a slightly larger screen, I decided to try a more ‘desktop’ style interface. Read more…
It should be clear by this point that I think Matt Anderson’s recent book, Earthen Vessels, is worth reading and discussing. This week, I want to look at the topic of tattoos, which Matt covers in one of his chapters. Read more…
