Grand Canyon, That Sinking Feeling

I took a trip north with the idea of escaping the oppressive heat of Tucson. I found myself at Grand Canyon’s south rim on June 13th and decided to see if less adept hikers had canceled reservations at Indian Garden Campground due to the heat.

Star Trek Discovery Finds the Future

This is a review of Season 3 of Star Trek Discovery (DSC), and believe it or not it’s mostly positive. I guess I like this show because I’ve kept following it since the beginning, albeit complaining that it could be better. If you want to take a journey back into my writing about Discovery in this blog follow this Star Trek tag. The posts that have “Discovery” in the title contain my thoughts going back to Season 1.

The Pandemic Beard

I grew out my beard for the pandemic, and I gained some perspectives on beards and the self. I even wondered at one point if beard growth and the Capitol insurrection of January 6^th were somehow connected. Maybe it’s pandemic fatigue taking over, but growing facial hair might be a window into the soul or a connection to the beast within.

Purdue effing University Global

Strange experience yesterday. I have been considering getting some kind of online graduate certificate to enhance my resume and get some new contacts in an educational field where I could work from home. I found a certificate program associated with Purdue University, and I clicked the link to get more information.

Cuties, An Honest Look

The advertising campaign for ‘Cuties’ in America appears to be working. I doubt I would have watched it if not for the calls to boycott by right-wing extremists. It’s been in both the top 10 of most watched movies and overall titles on Netflix in the USA. I felt I should watch it to see what the fuss is about because I have a film degree and could offer some objectivity. SPOILERS Ahead.

Revisiting Star Trek Picard

Remember the hype? There was such anticipation and buildup for Star Trek Picard last year; it was touted as both a groundbreaking ten episodes of new television and a continuation of an old character. It seems so long ago because it first dropped around the time the Covid-19 pandemic hit America. I had high hopes for Picard myself, and I planned to review it but never got around to it. Maybe that alone speaks volumes, but the show is still on my mind along with many ideas about where Star Trek has gone these days, so I thought I’d finally make good on my promise to write a review here. 

On Being White

There’s a notion in my head lately that hasn’t become part of a conversation, and I wonder how it might be received if I spoke it. The notion is “I don’t consider myself white.” Or perhaps it might be better to say that I don’t think of myself as “white”.

In Defense of the Colour Orange

This isn’t about politics, it’s simply as the title says In Defense of the Colour Orange. A little creative writing that came out of a recent hike in the desert….

Omicron Andromedae (Dream)

People are having strange dreams during this time of isolation. Here’s one I had on April 21.

Crossing the Borderline

My sister has Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). It feels facetious and flippant to write that in a blog, but it’s something I’ve been dancing around for a while now. There’s a few reasons it feels wrong, the least of which is an ‘agree to disagree’ situation I had with my mother over psychology. A deeper reason is that I mostly managed to escape the cauldron of that behavior (or so I thought), and the term is somewhat archaic — it’s 25 years on since I heard that explanation from a psychologist.