This is a gathering of essays (and a few haiku) written for my old blog when I lived in downtown Wichita on the banks of the Little Arkansas. These may some day appear in stand-alone form; but for now, here they are.
This is a gathering of essays (and a few haiku) written for my old blog when I lived in downtown Wichita on the banks of the Little Arkansas. These may some day appear in stand-alone form; but for now, here they are.
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.--James Baldwin
Reading Literature and Philosophy
Gothic Pasts and Posthuman Futures
Unearthing stories on the prairie
A Contemporary Companion to PrairyErth
Politics, culture, family and more. From a (mostly) Mennonite perspective.
Thinking about place and power - a site written and curated by Stuart Elden
A modern symposium for the digital age
News and commentary on Caribbean culture, literature, and the arts
A writer trying to teach becomes a teacher trying to write
MUSINGS : CRITICISM : HISTORY : PASSION
Where maps, history, and fantasy come to mingle
