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Lovecraft Country: An Introduction
I do want to make it known that neither the book nor the HBO show are for children in any way. Both are created for adults who are critical thinkers and understand that fiction tells us the truths that are often too difficult to face in reality. It creates a space for us to be empathetic, to put ourselves in the shoes of people who live disparate lives, and to realize that, underneath it all, we are human beings who are more alike than we are different.
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Hello Again! Personal Notes and the Roller Coaster Known as 2020
Hello, hello, readers-mine. A friend has asked me to start blogging again and I really rather enjoy designing websites, so I decided to create a brand new one. I've migrated all the old stuff over, so nothing should be missing, though I have found that some formatting got a little funky in the transfer from Blogger to Wordpress. That said, I love the clean lines on the new site.
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OTG: The Oregon Trail Generation
I was born in 1983. This means that according to demographers I'm both a part of Gen X and a Part of Gen Y, a group also dubbed "the Millennials." Generations are a tricky business and I would venture to say that people born in the late 70s and early 80s are really a strange micro-generation. I have no idea what we should be called, but I'm a fan of "The Oregon Trail Generation," because, frankly, we certainly don't fit the general descriptions of either:
