Category: Slice of Life
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Being, Personhood, and Humanity
Reading Time: 14 minutes There is a philosophical fasciation of personhood. What it means to be human. What it means to have being. How and why that being takes shape. Grappling with one’s self as an opposition to another ‘self’, or basing an identity on the identity of another. The fasciation extends deeply into culture, traditions, religion, and media. How we know who we are, and how we form a sense of identity, community, and humanity come together to form fantastical stories of the struggles of life, grief, joy, pain, love, and loss.
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2022 Books In Review
Reading Time: 11 minutes We’re over a quarter the way through 2023, so of course it’s an appropriate time to do a year-in-review book list for 2022. It makes perfect sense! I don’t sit down and read physical books nearly as much as I did growing up, but for a full calendar year, I actually paid for and kept […]
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Writing Music with ABCjs
Reading Time: 6 minutes Recently, I’ve gotten back into composing music, and my ancient iMac (from early 2009) just can’t keep up with MIDI software and music notation software anymore. So, I began to search for a replacement. I found Musescore, which I have quickly grown to love, but it’s not quite enough. I have always wanted a way […]
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10 Signs You’re the Asshole – Airport Edition
Reading Time: 6 minutes We’ve all been there: a long layover at a busy airport, waiting for our flights, trying to find a place to charge our various devices, and trying to get as much rest and relaxation as possible in an otherwise crowded and high stress environment. Even though everyone shares this experience at airports, there always seems […]
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One Year Later: COVID-19
Reading Time: 10 minutes One year ago today, at the Early Childhood Services Center in the Continuing Education building of UNM, most of the staff gathered together in one of our larger conference rooms to discuss our departmental response to the then new public health crisis caused by the Novel Coronavirus, Sars-CoV-2, and the disease it brought on, COVID-19. […]
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My Favorite Narrative Podcasts
Reading Time: 3 minutes Podcasts are one of my most consumed forms of media, followed closely by serialized TV dramas. In 2020, according to my screen-time and time tracker, I spent on average 2 hours per day listening to podcasts. While that may not be very much on a daily level, there are absolutely some days where I binge […]
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My Favorite News Podcasts
Reading Time: 2 minutes Podcasts are one of my most consumed forms of media, followed closely by serialized TV dramas. In 2020, according to my screen-time and time tracker, I spent on average 2 hours per day listening to podcasts. While that may not be very much on a daily level, there are absolutely some days where I binge […]