Month: August 2015

About once a month, I get asked by a colleague or friend for the syllabus I used to teach my seminar on the Graphic Novel at Amherst. Included below is a list of the texts that I used to teach students. In that seminar I allowed optional creative exercises and finals, and that led to me teaching tutorials in the making of comics, which led to me advising two graphic novel theses to summa honors. I’m very proud of those students, who were both also awarded the English Department’s prize for best thesis. Amherst’s English department was very generous and supportive in the teaching I did there throughout, and I’m incredibly grateful for the hard work of all of my students.

I taught the class as an experiment, even an expedition of a kind, and so it was never the same every time. I began teaching it because more graphic novels…

Watching social media more or less incessantly as I have been over the last few days – instead of working or feeding my children or acknowledging brief but important everyday moments of physical affection from my partner – I’ve seen, as you surely have, that everyone is furious about a thing.  This thing really has got goats and stuck in craws in every corner of the globe. It’s been trending for days and hardly anyone’s feed is free of comment on the subject.  Politicians and celebrities have weighed in with their opinions, and seventy-four badly-realised parody accounts based on this thing were registered by midnight Pacific Time last night.

But ask yourself this: why? Why are they furious about this thing when there is another thing that I believe they should be much more furious about?  The thing that I believe they should be furious about is so much more…

My 3 Day Quote Challenge – Day 2

1. To be or not to be? That is the question.” ~ William Shakespeare
2. “I live here now, and my responsibility is in this world now. I deal with natural laws. This is my work here on earth.” ~ Albert Einstein
3. “Perhaps those impulses must come from scientists in the tradition of Galileo, Kepler and Newton. In spite of failures and persecutions, these men devoted their lives to proving that the universe is a single entity, in which, I believe, a humanized God has no place.” ~ Albert Einstein

With gratitude and thankfulness to my Lord Jesus Christ and to https:https://kavitakhanvilkar.wordpress.com/2015/06/15/3-day-quote-challenge-day-1///kavitakhanvilkar.wordpress.com/2015/06/15/3-day-quote-challenge-day-1/ to nominate me for this challenge. It is an experimentation with words to inspire me.

The rules are:

1. Post your favorite quotes or your own quotes for 3 days in a row.
2. Thank the person who nominated you.
3. Pass it…

Her perspective about happy people in her question Are you happy? helps me to show the contrast of the way we see things.

Now I begin to understand some people and the narcissists are so unhappy and attempt to make me see in their perspectives and belittling my never say die attitude and attempts.

Glad that I didn’t tell the narcissist is a narcissist as stated from 5 reasons why you should never tell a narcissist they’re a narcissist.

But I have been pointing his words that hurt me. But he is always in denial as described in the website.

I should have listened to the prompting of the Holy Spirit. Too late to to undo.
I should have listen

Whenever I login into WordPress, there is always a premium button.
What will happen if I click the wordpress premium? Will my current wordpress followers and statistics is moved over to the premium? My friend never buys the premium. And I never want to lose my current followers and waste my time tweaking aimlessly. My friend has spent her time touching free wordpress and purchased wordpress blog from other server. And she is going through problems to move her followers. She does not dare to promise due her never does so.

Any kind soul, please tell me.

Thank you.

New police training on mental illness and autism is ‘probably going to save someone’s life’is a good news for the autistic people.