storytelling
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Heather annotates: “Beware the ‘Storification’ of the Internet”
In which I post my own notes about an article that got me thinking about how we think about stories. Continue reading
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In which I coin the term panicfic

This post is brainstorming, not research. Clearly. I’m fascinated by these little stories we create in the middle of a moral panic. I was going to coin the term panic-dote but it’s used for something else according to the Urban Dictionary (though, in an extenuating circumstances there is a way this established definition could fit). Continue reading
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A Medical Story

I had a conversation with the clerk at my pharmacy the other day. I was picking up a prescription for a family member and he said “You know it costs $XXX?” “Yes, and I still don’t know why you ask me. It’s not like we don’t need the script.” “Well, we let people know because Continue reading
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None are named “All of You”
Note: I apologize to my classmates for missing last week’s discussion. My time management skills apparently had not yet returned from break. I have since forcibly extracted them from the void and, battered as they are, am working diligently to get them ship-shape. Considering the time-stamp on this post, they are still a little…disgruntled. Language is like Continue reading