Now that we are engaged, we have the opportunity to relate. Dear lover, I want you to need me for this ICE HOLE but, who are WE? In our present time of increasing “self-likeness” — that is, perceiving ourselves as being digitally affirmed by one another — our...
Yesterday I began thinking again about Christine Chubbuck: supposedly the first woman’s suicide caught on film and, importantly, an intentionally public act. This was not an accidental recording. She shot herself in the head while news anchoring. To make...
1: YOU SHOULD (BE MORE) LIKE ME The area of the Midwestern USA where I grew up is predominately Mennonite and other Anabaptist Christian, home to two of the major Mennonite colleges in the United States. Anabaptist faiths are organized along a spectrum between...