Category: Storytelling

  • Perceiving Deep Order, or “Does God Exist?”

    In which I consider the existence and/or non-existence of God/gods through a number of different lenses.

  • “Position Yourself,” He Said

    (This blog has a glossary. Or it will, someday.) When I was in grad school the second time, I signed up for a course taught by a radical queer theorist/anthropologist. Because that’s what all physics teachers need, you know? My very first assignment in this course was to summarize the readings (three full length academic…

  • Giving Up on Truth Will Set You Free

    If you get nothing else from this website, please take away the possibility of this: The pursuit of Truth is a fool’s errand. Fool’s Errand 1: The Impossible Task We grow up in a world of competing stories. Call them culture, call them religion, call them beliefs; at heart, they are stories about the world,…

  • Nobody Puts Baby in a Corner

    On Writing is a wonderful book. It is a fine piece of storytelling from a fine storyteller, and full of concrete and useful advice. But I think it steered me wrong in one respect. “Don’t,” Stephen King said, “put your desk in the middle of the room. Place it in the corner to remind yourself…