With 2016 drawing to a close and 2017 about to begin, I decided to take a look back at 2016 and spotlight the best (or most significant) blog post of each month. Some months — July, quite notably — were more difficult that others; there were a few months, like March and August, where IContinue reading “On the Year that Was”
Tag Archives: UNICEF
Unfairy Tales
I sat at my desk today and wept. My day at the office was spent writing; today I started on the text for my 108th catalog. I listened to minor league baseball games through the day as my background noise, and at four o’clock — and ten thousand words later — I’d wrapped up workContinue reading “Unfairy Tales”
On the Death of Smurfs
The UN agency UNICEF has made a public service commerical in which Smurf village is carpet-bombed. See for yourself. From the article: The short film pulls no punches. It opens with the Smurfs dancing, hand-in-hand, around a campfire and singing the Smurf song. Bluebirds flutter past and rabbits gambol around their familiar village of mushroom-Continue reading “On the Death of Smurfs”