How to shut up and be grateful in 10 easy steps — I tried my best to come up with a witty title for this one, but mostly I’m just filled with feelings over what I just saw on my student portal. Anger, despair, disappointment, a sinking sensation that things aren’t moving in a positive direction fast enough for it to matter… …

An unpopular opinion that needs to be told — When my brother and I were very little and his autism wasn’t diagnosed yet, he had a lot of trouble speaking like a normal human person. At four and five years old, he was still babbling in unintelligible baby-talk half the time, and people couldn’t understand him. Fortunately, at six…

On theology, neurology, and petting lions this holiday season. — The human brain is a fascinating and terrifying place. This is the thing that governs every solitary sensation we have while bound in these clay vessels, and there’s clearly a reason it’s kept wrapped up under so many layers of blood, fibers of varied hardness, and other assorted gore. …

A classic tale where you get to choose the ending. — Spiders are badass, man. Everything on the planet is terrified of them, even though all they really do is chill out in corners and consume pests. The females are massive compared to the males, which they will happily deour if given the opportunity. Also, their silk is one of the…

This time, she’s serving up more than steaming hot ‘za. — One evening in January 2022, I found myself face-to-face with the guy who poisoned my mind and set me down a path of self-destruction. He doesn’t deserve anonymity for what he did; but for the sake of being professional, we’re calling him Jake. I hadn’t seen his handsome, stupid face…

My testimony as an asexual Christian, with memes. — True to my usual self, I came out to my parents with a terrible joke.

Nothing here matters — Jesus said so. — I may have mentioned once or twice before that I have an irrational lack of fear of the void, and it’s mainly Jesus’ fault. When death has no edge, and you have a personal friendship with the creator of everything, how could anyone blame me? …

They parlay their pocket change into sainthood. — I know more than one person who argues in favor of ultra-wealthy CEOs on the premise that they donate literal billions of dollars to charity. $24.8 billions, in fact, in 2020. And that’s a good, right? We should be happy and grateful for those billions, right? …

Sheesh, arrogant, much? — It had been too long since Scott and I had sat and enjoyed the only two episodes of the animated Hellboy series, so we popped in the BluRay the other night. …