Posts by: dawn

me! me! me! (and books)

The link circulating amongst many authors on Twitter these days is a blog post by Neil Gaiman in which he addresses a fan's concerns over authors producing works on their…

magic

After I wrote my post on faeries, a friend sent me a link to the comic strip PartiallyClips. In this particular strip, the characters are talking about magic, and how…

crushin’

For the last month, I've been pretty much bed-bound. I've been very sick, venturing out only to teach, then heading right back home to bed to sleep. It hasn't been…

where the faeries play

I have been thinking about storytelling quite a bit lately. I've been thinking about the importance of storytelling, of sharing information via tales and stories. I've been thinking about the…

the music of our lives

I can't believe I haven't ever written this post. You know, the post about the music of our lives, those pieces of music that have defined us and led us…

the moments in-between

There have been moments in-between. The moments where I feel the most lucid, where my head isn't filled with theory, or concepts, or longing for family and Arizona and sunshine,…

aural intimacy

It began long ago. Isn't that how this starts? Or, perhaps, not so long ago, but still far enough in the past that it's becoming hazy and dimmer as the…

what has meaning

This, I submit, is the freedom of a real education, of learning how to be well-adjusted. You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't. You get to…

a teenager — new and improved!

I was reading Wil Wheaton's post on a problematic issue he has with people associating him with the character he played on television while he was a teenager. One of…

never enough

Me: I thought I'd use this summer to catch up on some readings, learn more about different theorists, understand more concepts, and delveĀ  into more ideas surrounding our discipline. Professor:…