As I am typing this I am an enjoying a magnificently anachronistic sound: clickety, clackety, click-clack, clickety, clack. My husband got me a mechanical keyboard for my birthday, and I love it already. I may be typing a blog post, but if I close my eyes it sounds like I'm a reporter in a 1970s … Continue reading The beautiful noise of typing on a mechanical keyboard
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They have come like vultures to pick the meat from my bones. They will peck out my heart if I let them. They circle and circle then swoop in to kill what is already dead. I do not recognize them. They have not been here before. They only came now because they were drawn in … Continue reading The Vultures of Main Street
The internet is not capitalized according to a recent change to the AP Stylebook. The internet (nee Internet) is a lot of things, at least according to Twitter. I happened to see these two tweets starting with "The internet is..." in close succession today: The internet is where people go to prove they’re the best … Continue reading The internet is…a topic on Twitter
I read an article called Why Theater Majors Are Vital in the Digital Age and was struck by this paragraph: A colleague tells a story about assigning a scene from a 1970s play in which one character waits on a park bench for some time. The actor was unable to conceive of any kind of "waiting" that … Continue reading When was the last time you did nothing?
Today is the Transgender Day of Visibility (#TDOV), but visibility is not enough. Despite the popularity of shows like Transparent and Orange is the New Black and despite the public transitions of celebrities like Caitlyn Jenner and the Wachowskis, LBGT rights in many places continue to erode. Prejudice and harassment continue. The transgender community needs … Continue reading Transgender people deserve #MoreThanVisibility
Kim Z. Dale 