Year the First

Year:

late 2011-2012

Most read posts: 

Train of Thought: Assessing an Assessment, 9/28/12 (2518 reads)

ThisBridge Will Only Take You Halfway There, 10/4/12 (487 reads)

Reparteeis Something We Think Of Twenty-Four Hours Too Late, 10/12/12 (121 reads)

Policies/Current Events Addressed: 

Climate change (11/22/11, Save the Planet?)

Politics (12/17/11, For the People?; 11/8/12, Obligatory Election Post)

Religion (4/8/12, Private Vs. Personal Faith; 7/1/12, In Response to Bad Metaphors and Cruel Theology; 12/12/12 What Comes Next?)

LGBTQ rights (10/6/12, "Self-Evident" Means "Obvious": Protecting the Pursuit of Happiness)

Autism (10/29/12, Doomed if You're Different)

Mental health and gun safety (12/17/12, It's Not the Gun, But the Hand on the Trigger)

Personal Events: 

College graduation May 20 2012 (Farewell Hollins Home)

New job October 17 2012 (Dream Job (?))

First NaNo November 2012 (Get to Work, Snowman Says)

My favorites: 

11/18/11 Acoustics 

11/17/12 Poetry: Asking the Impossible Questions

This year’s collection (as there were only two months of blogging in 2011, I combined it with 2012) speaks of a young woman still involved with schoolwork and comic books.  I don’t disparage either of those things, of course; in fact I miss both of them.  That girl was moderately self-aware, though frequently a bit dramatic and prone to purple prose.  I also could make mistakes about myself, too; at one point I believed myself “cured” of anti-social tendencies, to which I’ve proven the lie in past years.  Many things, however, remained the same.  I still can’t cook, for example.  I still love to play with words.  I still keep my journals (currently I’m on volume 17).  I still have doubts about the value of my work and whether anyone will ever want to read it.  There are questions I still have not answered.  And I still look forward to the best in others and in the world.