Category: Life Thoughts

Time. Time is my greatest limiting factor when it comes to writing. Biology textbooks, dishes, and sleeping consume the time I have for putting pen to paper. Or rather, in my case, putting text to Word documents with the tapping of fingertips. But if I do not have time to write in a physical form, … Continue reading Spark →

Evans' photos, much like Agee's words, are a tangle of children, places, grim faces, death and exhausted animals. It is easy to find patterns, but they are fragmented and littered with exceptions. While we cannot be sure that the photographs were organized with intent, it is assumed that, since the authors both had goals that … Continue reading Snapshots of Life →

While untangling the knot of words and sentences that compose "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men," I was interested to find that the author was aware of my presence as a reader and the role that I would play by completing his writings with my own experiences. The sensitive nature of the photographs and descriptions … Continue reading “Reflexes of Sympathy” →

First to start off with a confession: I have rubbed shoulders with ideas similar to the ones in Words and Images in readings before, and they immediately raised my hackles. Perhaps I was reading too much against the grain, or perhaps it was the context of the course I was in at the time: an … Continue reading A Confession →

In the words of Bartholomae and Petrosky, putting together your thoughts on a reading "requires that you work on what you have read, and that work best takes shape when you sit down to write." So here I am, sitting down to write and preparing for the act of writing to complete my reading. As … Continue reading The Power of the Pen →

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