On February 24th, I awoke to what felt like typical Thursday morning, engaging in my usual routine of checking social media outlets. It was there, via Instagram, that I learned of the missiling of Kyiv, prompting me to immediately message my friend Yura Ivanov to see if he and his partner Nata were safe. For…
Endless Possibilities Inside The Midnight Library
‘Between life and death there is a library,’ she said. ‘And within that library, the shelves go on for ever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be different if you had made other choices. . .Would you have done anything different, if you…
Bite the Bullet Journal
With the beginning of a new year, let alone decade, there can be a strong desire to get one’s life organized and begin again. Quite right. For a few years now, I’ve been fascinated by the growing popularity of bullet journaling, or rapid logging, and its potential for incorporating different techniques of data visualization. In…
Find Your Artistic Voice with Artist Lisa Congdon
David Tennant, 2013, pencil
Jenna Coleman, color pencil, 2013
Martin Freeman, pencil, 2014
There once was a time when I attended college to become an illustrat
New Book Club Hoopla: Comic Book Club!
Graphic novels and comic books seem to have a stigma attached to them; they are not seen as “real books” or considered “real reading.” And, in addition to this association, there appears to be an underlying feeling that women are unwelcome to read them as it seems to be a male dominated genre. This may…
Find Yourself Inside Luisa: Now and Then
Book cover image courtesy of Humanoids
What would you do if your teenage self showed up on your doorstep? What would you say? How would you respond? It’s an in
Trust No One
Trust No One, an anthology curated by Jonathan Maberry, is a love letter for fans, new and not so new, of the realm of The X-Files. The fifteen stories are, in essence, episodes themselves expanding on storylines and involving notable characters. This unabridged collection with a running time of just over fifteen hours is adeptly read by Bronson…
Temporal Turn, Turn, Turn
The Spencer Museum of Art recently underwent a transformative renovation that lasted eighteen months and celebrated with a grand re-opening weekend in October.
Yuri!!! On Ice and the Wide World of Sports Anime
This October, the anime Yuri On Ice!!!, made its debut and has since taken the internet by storm. It begins with “a dime-a-dozen Japanese figure skater,” Katsuki Yuri, who struggles with anxiety and self-confidence issues. Following a defeat at the Grand Prix Final and the eventual loss of his coach, he returns to his hometown of Hasetsu in…
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