If you saw my Top 10 list for 2023, you d notice it was published in July a full 6 months after the calendar year ended. Here, I m sliding in a week past that previous record. The reasons remain the same: work, family, and the simple fact there is so much to see and so [ ]
I don’t usually publish my Top 10 lists until a month (or two, or three) into the new year. A lot of this is just logistics. It’s hard to catch all these great movies that come out in the last quarter of the year. It has to be spread out. Something has to give. And [ ]
There’s a lot of great movies I didn’t get around to this year. The time constraints of raising a toddler meant my wife and I gravitated towards the shorter episodes of a television series rather than sinking into a movie we weren’t sure we had the energy for. So there’s an awful lot of surely [ ]
A key thing my wife and I learned this past year is that the exhausting endeavor of the toddler bedtime routine left us with just enough time, energy, and brain space for a simple episode of television. Thankfully, the Age of Streaming provided a lot of options. There may be some spoilers. Here are some [ ]
I just wanted to draw my favorite snake. I classify snakes in the same group as birds, scorpions, and spiders: organisms that have beaks, pinchers, or unpredictable attack patterns that leave me constantly anxious of their possible attack. What makes snakes even more terrifying is how calm they always appear to be. They’re just resting [ ]
As a young Deaf person often operating in hearing spaces, I often looked for something that might make me look just cool enough to be on equal footing with my abled peers. I fully recognize the internalized ableism in that mindset, but at the time it felt like the only logical way to look at [ ]
Sometimes what keeps you crispy also burns you out. I think about this a lot whenever I’m going through yet another newsletter or chasing another YouTube video for insights, when I’m looking for something that will help me finally get something together be it my creative process or my ideas or sense of disorganization [ ]
The real sparks come when you ride the wave of creativity. When you know there will be moments where you’re stuck and unsure where to go next and need to go into a more idle mode, busying yourself with random tasks such as taking a shower, going for a walk, or driving around the neighborhood. [ ]
Can you connect four emotions? So much of the writing process can feel technical. Certain things need to happen by certain pages or certain points in the story. But when you go too far in the direction, you lose what makes it last: the emotion of it all. I become a far better, more engaging [ ]
When I see the word SPLAT, I think of those Nickelodeon slime machines. The ones primed and ready to be sprung on any unsuspecting celebrity at the annual Kids Choice Awards? The kind boldly trying to make a technologically-boosted comeback with the…NFL? Yes, that did happen. But the beauty of the dictionary is how you [ ]