Social media and understanding the pain of others
The Internet and social media pulled us all together so that our pain could lock us up in our own personal silos to protect us from each other. There is a cruel irony to the…
The rise, and frankly odd popularity of making informational videos from home
There is something fundamentally weird about a person who sits down before their phone to make a teaching video for complete strangers. Traditionally, the acts of teaching and learning usually occur within groups. The Ancient…
The Intrusion of Autocorrect and Auto Responses
I never thought I would end up condemning the use of autocorrect functions when producing written communications. They were always just there, morphing and modifying as word processing platforms and texting software evolved and became…
Why the absence of healthy sex verbs in the English language?
I have always been struck by the fact that in the English language there is no verb for sexual behavior that is not cold or scientific (e.g. mating, copulating, conjugating, etc.) or crude. This is…