NaNoWriMo: The Insanity Returns
Hi, everyone. On the heels of the awesome UCCE Halloween concert comes yet another crazy project for me to take on: NaNoWriMo. Basically, all participants sign up to write a 50,000 word story during the month of November.
Crazy, huh? Some of you might remember me undertaking this last year, resulting in the triumphant finish of Adrift in the Wind. A crap story, but a legitimate short novel. About 55K words.
And this year I’m back with an awesome idea, which you will have to just wait to find out about until later. I don’t have a title…
Proposition 8'
Only marriages of couples sharing the same ethnicity are valid and recognized in California.
Now, I fully recognize that a man and woman of different ethnicities can share a deep and meaningful relationship. But this is an issue of family values.
If we allow interracial marriages in California, we are overturning the beliefs that a majority of residents have shared in recent years. These residents, people like you and me, will be forced to face mandatory compliance with and acceptance of interracial marriage regardless of personal beliefs. Whether they believe it is right or wrong.
The issue is not as…
Cultural Spectra
Race is a topic that crops up every now and then. Some people have very strong views; others use it for their brand of jokes; still others, like me, try to avoid the issue as much as possible. I’m not so comfortable with the issues of race; the fact that many of them are real and not imagined makes the problem worse.
I’m the kind of guy who doesn’t like to describe people as “Asian” or “Hispanic”, who can’t tell anyone’s ethnicity, and who says he speaks a bit of “Mandarin” (not “Chinese”). I don’t like thinking in these terms,…