Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson, The Principle of Moments Time travel. Space opera. Chosen Ones. Long-lost siblings. Disaster gay boy in love with a disaster prince. It has everything, including the kitchen sink. ~~~ Charlotte Bond, The Fireborne Blade Old-school sword-and-sorcery with modern sensibi...
In principle, this sounds like a perfect read for me: an anthology of poetry by women in horror, exploring their experiences of gender and identity. It’s possible my own high expectations contributed to my ultimate lukewarm response, but sadly I felt there was little here to push the bounda...
The creative process works best when we turn off the critical part of our brain and allow thoughts and ideas to flow freely. This taps into the concept from the book about The Uncarved Block. The author states, “The essence of the principle of The Uncarved Block is that things in their...
Postmodern culture no longer believes that the universe can be reduced to one, singular, underlying principle, or that there is one complete and final explanation for all that exists. Instead, in the Postmodern manner of thinking, reality is a manifold of many differing, diverse, and incongruous...
Recently I’ve been considering this principle more than ever before: the action of writing about place is always political. This truth perhaps feels like it has even greater and more tragic resonance in our current era, where landscapes are territories strongly contested by multiple forces, yet ...
reflection, I suddenly thought about the KISS principle (keep it simple, stupid) which posits that design is much more efficient and effective if it is kept in a simple form without added complexity. So with that in mind and keeping with the theme of abstraction, I shall finish my ...
of love and the concept of free love had separate origins, Henry and Elizabeth saw a connection between the two. True love of one human being for another could not be sinful. Whereas Elizabeth and Henry emphasized Love as the guiding spiritual and ethical principle, for Theodore, it was ...
The next ruler of Sweden will be a queen. The current king has an eldest daughter, Victoria, and the Swedish Royal family is awesome because they’re very progressive and very modern, and they did away with the principle of male rule even before the English Royals did this, they made it...
Our culture has long appreciated the advantages of an adversarial approach for arriving at truth – indeed, that principle undergirds our entire justice system. The O.J. Simpson case exemplifies the adversarial process’s dramatic potential. That case – in essence an argument between the prosecuti...
This principle, called “negativity bias,” shows up all over psychology. In marital interactions, it takes at least five good or constructive actions to make up for the damage done by one critical or destructive act. In financial transactions and gambles, the pleasure of gaining a certain amou...