Be outraged when reason is subverted and lies are told as truths. Reason is at the heart of humanity. Reason is humanity.
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I ask you: is this not the face of a profoundly reasonable and responsible cat?
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When I was in college, I took a test in which the final question was Why is a raven like a writing-desk?
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Fiction relies on pathos to make an impact on its readers, but the pathos used in fiction can also be a call to action.
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Swimmers, how do we protect ourselves and each other from becoming swept up in dangerous pathos?
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Dear Swimmers, please prepare to get all hot and bothered by a character who has had book nerds swooning for centuries.
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He looked at me with his chubby, rosy cheeks and batted his Snuffleupagus eyelashes and said he needed a hug because he loved me so much.
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If a tree screams a protest but there’s no one in the forest to hear, does the scream of protest make a sound?
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When Jane was in third grade, she learned about a special STEM academy in our school system. She was going to have to apply for a spot, which is highly selective because each class has only 48 spots to accommodate students from our entire county. So my industrious little Jane went merrily about the application process.
She was not accepted.
There were some tears.
She survived the disappointment.
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My husband, Joe, is fond of saying that if you don’t look back on yourself from five years ago and cringe, you’re not growing properly as a person. He usually tells me this when I’m in full-on cringe mode, but if growth was relative to cringe, I should be roughly the size of the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man by now.
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When I was four years old, someone told me the story of the Miracle of the Sun. This story scared the daylights out of me.
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