Book Rec: The Botanist's Assistant
Have you ever opened a book and within the first 10 pages recognized yourself and/or the many wonderful nerdy-focused people in your life as an amalgam of the protagonist? Peggy Townsend's The Botanist's Assistant did just that for me.
Untending
Lately, my time has gone to evaluating my energy drains. As a middle-aged person, I have learned, this is a common theme. Not because we have a collectively, synchronized drive for the mundane; our survival instincts compel us.
Improve Apartment Building Standards
We are never going to convince people to live more densely if we don't do something about the terrible building standards for multi-unit housing.
I'm trapped in a lease
Sexualizing Master Chief: Erasing a Hero's Asexual Identity
Reading the headline “Master Chief has sex in Halo episode 8…” should not have reduced a grown, middle-aged adult to tears. The course change of the lead fictional hero in a video game
Bye Bye, Bird Site
Not even a full month has passed since I deactivated my Twitter account. I have a reminder scheduled for 29 days post-deactivation to confirm my decision, a day before the account will be