Tag: diversity

  • Why Different?

    Why Different?

    It’s different, he said. Good different or bad different? I queried curiously. Just different. I don’t know why you had to make chocolate cake different. I don’t know either. Because I could? Because I was curious and wanted to see what would happen if I baked a cake with S’mores flavored porter as the liquid?…

  • Contrarian

    Contrarian

    I find for all that I prefer to follow the rules and color within the lines when it comes to my interaction with other people, I dig in my heels and ask “why?” when I’m told “you must do so-and-so!” Especially when someone is trying to tell me how to think, how to create. No.…

  • Purple Neuter Polka-Dot Eater

    It doesn’t matter. The brilliant MC Hogarth sums up. “…and I find… that I don’t care. Because oppression only matters if people have power over you. These days, I don’t have to care if editors don’t like stories by women, or Hispanics, or conservatives. I can just go to Amazon, publish them myself, and find…

  • Round Em-Up!

    I am back in my own house, with my dear First Reader, the happy dog, and… WHERE did all this pile of stuff on my desk come from?! Oh my… reality is a pile of packages, supplies, books to catalog, whiteboard with a list longer than my arm, and emails that piled up in my…

  • No More Modifiers

    No More Modifiers

    People are people. Not polka-dot people, or purple people, or people of hue, or any other modifier. Just people. Stop trying to make the differences more obvious, learn to embrace that life is risky, and quit manipulating the language for your own inane agendas, darn it! More at Mad Genius Club…