Free to Navel Gaze
Discoveries by E. Marmer
Charles Schultz you like to say you’re Charlie Brown the unappreciated hapless shlemazel the unfailingly benign well-meaning soul always harangued by demeaning women but Charlie wasn’t tone deaf or worse purposefully snide he wasn’t an archer an overbearing pedant quick to judge to wound it was you...
helloglee.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/broken.jpg You think it’s a choice, You said so to that lady who told you “It’ll take years for me to get over this.” You said, “That’s your choice,” Puffed up when you told me, No one makes you feel what they want you to feel, Least of...
scientificamerican.com My recent phone encounter with a Microsoft customer service representative from India has renewed my faith in humanity. Not that I’d lost all faith, but the constant, depressing revelations in the news these days chip away at it. A dose of connection between two people on different sides...
This is a timely and insightful essay looking back at the values portrayed in the John Hughes movies of the 80’s, and comparing them to changing values in the age of Me Too. And the fact that it was written by Molly Ringwald, the actress whose character in The...
What’s wrong with navel-gazing anyway?
