essays
Keeping the Lights on in a Room of One’s Own
Say you now have a room of your own. It's a nice place, considering.
Arkay Ussery
essays
How Can We Look to the Skies When the World is Burning?
I don't know. It's been a month since the successful Artemis II launch and return. I watched the live footage of the crew's splashdown. I held my breath with every milestone on their way home. I hoped with all of my being they would
essays
Escaping the Endless Scroll Part Four: I'm Bad at Obituaries
May her memory be a blessing.
postcards
Well done if done well if well done
West Point Indiana July 30 1908 Hello Floyd, Ossie is going Sun instead of Ruthy. Ruth is going to have court & (any?) and can't go. She is just sick about it. Hope everything will be so we can go. Hot as can be today. -Ethel Mr. Floyd
poetry
Rushed to prod…
essays
Horror As a Service
There's a thing I think some folks don't get about the horror genre. There's a point to it beyond the blood and gore and existential dread. Well several points, actually.
Norman the Game - Just Launched
A couple years ago I started developing a card game to use some of the more than 15,000 photos I’ve taken of my cat Norman. I’ve finally finished it and have put it up on Kickstarter to share it with the world. I‘ll be posting updates
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Escaping the Endless Scroll Part Three: Deprecating the Attention Generator
The journey so far: Yours truly had a stroke and one of the unexpected side effects was a shift in their relationship with social media and being online. So here’s the story of the break up. When people ask me why I moved to a small town in the
arts
Hourglass Figure
essays
That One Time I Used Midjourney to Make a Lenormand Deck
So one time I used Midjourney to make a Lenormand deck. This is how and why I did it.
poetry
Swords X
The cards tend to tell me The hard truths, the obvious But when on some days They give me hope Even filled with swords The hope hurts more than The truth ever can
poetry
Dandelions
We persist like dandelions In concrete Putting our roots into The foundations Finding cracks in The places They don't want us To grow