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Using folk motifs to write stories of your own

Masha and the Bear by Andrey on Flickr

As a child, I drank in folktales in all colors, from the olive book of fairy tales to the crimson and lilac books. And then, I tried rustling through the coats in our large wooden wardrobe to find Narnia, or sweeping

Cee January 2018March 2018 Data, Worldwide 1 Comment Read more

Why I Don’t Always Share What I Write

Why I Don’t Always Share What I Write

I love David Sherlock’s post on the blog posts he didn’t write in 2017. It lets him set aside some rather unwieldy beasts, yet share what he’s been wrestling with. His never-posts range from education to gendered toys to ‘everything

Cee January 2018March 2018 Living Well 2 Comments Read more

“Berlin is for partying, not for reading books in a hostel!”

“Berlin is for partying, not for reading books in a hostel!”

“You want to be a writer? Schopenhauer said that you must not seek to be the most famous artist, you must just become the best that you can be. To draw the sound of flowers,” Mathéo says, clenching his fist

Cee March 2014January 2018 Economics & Class, Humor, Worldwide 1 Comment Read more

On leaving academia for the alt-academy

On leaving academia for the alt-academy

The reason that I rarely write good blog posts is that it takes me so long. I dump hasty thoughts and stories into a file, play with them and connect them to other ideas, and work them over until they’re

Cee July 2013February 2018 Academia No Comments Read more

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