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Articles A “Cool Heads” Global Warming Discussion

Or, lets say that we are NOT the cause of global warming. Then that frees us of the burden of having to correct it, right? Wrong. Even if we're not the cause of it, it's happening anyway. So, doesn't it seem like a good idea to plan for the future?

Oct 25, 2007
Blog A few Comicpalooza highlights…

A few Comicpalooza highlights: a full-size robotic creeper from Minecraft, a black female Doctor Who, a zombified Wonder Woman, Master Chief from Halo, the whole distorted family from Beetlejuice, a…

May 25, 2013
Fiction A Flowing Event

This is the first complete short story I wrote in college. It was for one of my first English classes and no particular directive.

May 7, 2001
Fiction A Little Role Play

This assignment was to write a dialogue between two people without using identifying markers like, “he said,” and “said Kari.” I don’t remember what the content requirements were, but I would guess there weren’t any. My professors are good about that.

Dec 3, 2004
Bad Poetry A Sudden Waste of Time

After breakfast, in my silly slippers and cotton pajamas, I shuffled out into the cold of morning to retrieve my mail. Among the coupons I’ll never use and advertisements I’ll…

Oct 22, 2002
Blog A Thought Experiment

Where does a good story begin? In a dark, wet alleyway of a large city? How about a cotton field in Texas? A business cubicle just before midnight? No. It…

Mar 28, 2001
Blog A year from today…

…George Bush will no longer be president. Just thought you might like to know.

Jan 20, 2008
Shared Abortion

Everyone who ever debates abortion should read this first. I first read the following article in Billions and Billions by Carl Sagan. It was co-written by Carl and his wife…

May 4, 2003
Fiction Absence

This short story focuses on the experiences of one man that finds himself unwilling to deal with the rest of humanity and his decision to leave society. After a time, strange things begin to happen in the skies above him, and he eventually finds himself wanting to reconnect with the people he had once abandoned. It was originally published in the inaugural issue of the Texas Texas University Honor's College journal in 2003.

Nov 13, 2003