I don’t care for the Kardashians. I refuse to purchase magazines that feature them as cover models. I don’t watch any of their shows. I don’t buy their apps. I find them to be vapid, shallow, and insipid; with no talent and nothing to offer. I am apparently in the minority in holding that opinion. Which is fine, other people apparently enjoy them and they’re richer than I can even dream of ever being. But even I have to hand it to them in one […]
Get It, Girls
I don’t know about you, but when I was a little girl, I wanted to be a princess when I grew up. There was the influence of Disney, but there was also the influence of Prince William (this was obviously before he grew up and started to look a lot more like his dad). From what you see on the outside, as a young girl, being a princess looks wonderful. You’re rich, famous, and you get to wear a tiara. As a 13 year-old, I […]
Who Needs Who More: God or Man?
Virtually every culture, around the world and across time, has some kind of religious/mythological belief system. Where did we come from? How are we to live? Those basic questions gave rise to hundreds, even thousands, of myths to give the answers (see: the entire Masks of God series I spent months of my life reading). In an anthropological/psychological sense, God did not create man. Man created the gods. And in Neil Gaiman’s American Gods, we didn’t just create them as concepts in the sky; they are […]
Is That All There Is?
My preferred genres to read tend to be contemporary and historical fiction…romance, especially paranormal romance, isn’t really up my alley at all (with the exception of the Twilight series). So I was surprised by how much I really enjoy reading Charlaine Harris’ Southern Vampire Mysteries series, but enjoy it I do. For those who watched the show (True Blood), Sookie Stackhouse in the books is a different (and much more compelling) character than she is on TV, so if you’re thinking you might not want […]