I Would Rather Wear a Christmas Tree Skirt

Tonight, I sat amongst a crowd. One of many watching Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue bring their modern jazz stylings to the stage. The music opened up the night sky and the rain fell. In the quiet moments, they became one and the same, brass instrumentation set against the uneven rhythm of water drops on…

What if there is a ladder? What if this ladder leads to one of two places? The ladder leads either to Heaven, whatever Heaven means for you, however you envision it. Or the ladder leads nowhere. Would you choose to climb? What if there are platforms every so often? What if, every time you reach…

Some scientists want koalas declared endangered, because apparently they are. This article says so –> this one right here <– and since it’s a Time article I’m going to assume that some fact-checking happened prior to publication, even if in the process of said fact-checking no one noticed the repeated use of “koala bear.” As…

Yet again from the American media. CNN, in fact. Let’s just face the sad truth. There are no reputable news sources anymore. Anyway, whatever your opinion on what Lincoln University is doing, I hope we all can agree that the headline “College’s too-fat-to-graduate rule under fire” is inflammatory and misleading. Also, what’s with CNN’s titles…