May
Some songs are better at storytelling than entire novels or movies. The nuances of the music, the lyrics, the tone, and the emotion of the singer quickly take you through the main character’s journey.
Mar
“You can vape in bed. You can vape anywhere,” a young adult acquaintance recently pointed out. As a former cigarette smoker, I almost gasped. Would I have ever been able to quit smoking if I could sneak a cigarette anytime, anywhere? It’s been four years since I published this blog below regarding how Juul’s storytelling […]
Jan
Mark Ruffalo produced Dark Waters and played the main character, environmental attorney Rob Bilott who fought DuPont for 20 years in a class action lawsuit that aimed to put an end to the human and environmental devastation caused by DuPont’s use of deadly chemicals, such as PFOA, in its plants in Ohio and West Virginia.
Jan
I’m always blown away by stunning lyrics, such as the title and chorus of the song Green Day performed, When I Come Around. Four words. Four words that could tell a whole story about…
Aug
Sanders emphasizes that creating a future to believe in depends on grassroots organizing, adapting laws to protect the vulnerable, challenging the power brokers, and working collaboratively.
Aug
I got off to a slow start with Alexander Chee’s How to Write an Autobiographical Novel, until I found some passages that almost made my heart stop. Most of my college English Lit classes bored me, so it was nice to experience a stellar English professor through his collection of sixteen essays, akin to a […]
May
However, as a work of fiction, it stands as exquisitely powerful storytelling of a woman who willingly gave up everything in her world, except for her job, for a relationship with a man that had nothing to do with intimacy and everything to do with chasing a high.