Reading and writing through time and space.
My favorite incarnation of the Doctor is the twelfth. Peter Capaldi. Bottle-top crunching eyebrows and grumpy Scottish accent. When I first started watching Capaldi's take on the Doctor, I was somewhat indifferent and had to adjust quite rapidly to the sudden mood shift. First of all, allow me to explain that until I watched Capaldi's … Continue reading “You will run, it will walk”: Grief and the Twelfth Doctor
Good morning, friends! How are we finding ourselves on this Memorial Day? Oh, and also...did you notice the new theme going on? As a writer, I've been investing a lot into my online presence lately, and I thought it was due time for an upgrade on this site. How do we feel about it? I'm … Continue reading A Theology of Heaven and Hell: Contrapasso in Dante’s “Inferno” and “The Great Divorce”
*Sherlock Se. 2 Ep. 1 Spoiler Warning* To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little … Continue reading “…Let Me be Vulnerable.”
The sensualist, I'll allow ye, begins by pursuing a real pleasure, though a small one. His sin is the less. But the time comes when, though the pleasure becomes less and less and the craving fiercer and fiercer, and though he knows that joy can never come that way, yet he prefers to joy the … Continue reading Lessons from The Great Divorce and Other Observations
"It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it." - Charlotte Brontë, from Jane Eyre My dear friends, It is the new year. It is officially 2018. It has been for eleven days now. I cannot explain to … Continue reading New Year, New Existence
Guten tag, friends! That is German for hello, by the way. I have taken it upon myself to teach my tongue the beautiful language of German. Not that I am completely confident that I will finish, but my language-learning-app says I'm already 9% fluent in German. That's enough to keep me going. I had better … Continue reading Irony and Dementors: Exceedingly Joyous Musings of a Hogwarts Drop-out
Hi, everyone! I have created a book tag with some bookish questions. And bookish is a word in case you were wondering XD . But, before we begin, I wanted to tell everyone about my new YouTube videos I uploaded to this blog on the post 2016 Summer and Lessons Learned. I actually uploaded the Lauren Daigle … Continue reading The Awe-Inspiring Book Tag