I hope one lasting consequence of COVID in the U.S is a blurring of work-time.

There's a saying like fish in water to mean sometimes you don't know something you're so ingrained within. The concept of work-time has been something I've been fish-in-water for.

I can recall instances in the past...

During the golden days of 200WAD , a warm sense of belonging blanketed me anytime I logged on. I knew there would be people who had posted new things that I could comment on. There'd most likely be comments and conversations developing either on my posts or somewhere else. It...

Whether you write here everyday or sometimes, rarely, or even one-and-done, if you're reading this I appreciate you being here. It most likely means that you want to write something. Maybe you don't know what that something is, but you could easily tell me who your favorite writers are. Strange...

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then writing a thought down for one day is worth a thousand days of having it tumble around in our heads. I've found the act of reflection much more active than I once assumed. I had thought it was about consuming information...

One of the treasures of learning about other cultures is all the badasses you get to learn about. No matter what context, there's always a subjective evil that needs to be fought. And when there's evil that needs fighting you get badasses. 

Growing up in the states I wanted to...

OpenerBesides a mug of earl gray rooibos , there were few different things on her tabletop. An Organic Chemistry textbook and a stack of marked index cards. If a friend could peer through her second story window they would guess that she had staged the scene for a Facebook photo...

Often people fear growing up because of responsibility. This fear is something we need to eradicate. How? By removing all responsibilities from humans by outsourcing it to robots and educational and political institutions. Just kidding.

What scares us isn't responsibility itself but a lack of it. As in if we are...

After a cold week it finally feels like summer or at least late spring in Michigan . I'm already finding it harder to write about rooibos teas on winter nights where dark falls too soon. Finding it easier to write about summer.

I grew up thinking that yard work wasn't...

I think the end of the 2010s and the early 2020s might be considered the era of fake passions, at least for the likes of people like  keni and myself and I suspect many others of the  200WAD ilk. 

I have been deliberately...

I've really been enjoying my first foray into  interactive fiction by using the scripting language Ink open sourced by  Inkle . 

What I love most about it is how the  form factor guides you into embracing  tight scopes . Instead of trying to come up with the perfect way to...