Holidays

An often overlooked part of being a writer is that people tend to open up to you. Maybe it's because we're not shy about publicly giving our two cents that folks feel inclined to confide in authors. That's a long way of saying that I know this past year has…

A chronic affliction of the American mind is the backwards notion that leisure serves work and not the other way around. Catholic philosopher Josef Pieper that people work to afford the luxury of leisure time. After all, that's ultimately why retirement plans and pensions are coveted parts of workers' compensation…

As anyone who's extremely online knows, the most longstanding internet holiday tradition is web sites - in particular gaming magazines - posting annoying fake stories on April Fools' Day. But the second oldest internet holiday tradition is unqualified bloggers making baseless predictions about the year ahead at New Year's. It…