Author Archive: tyunglebower
Okay, NOW It’s New Year’s
I write this a week to the day since most people ran in 2018. I myself was at a small New Year’s Eve party for the occasion. (Something that hasn’t happened in quite some time.) I had fun at the party, but it came at the end of a quite troublesome span of days at …
Annual Repost: “Yes, Virginia, There Was a Writer.”
I had forgotten how long it had been since I first posted my thoughts on the famous “Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus” editorial. I tend to repost a link to it every year, so that may be one reason why it doesn’t seem to have been around on my blog for as long …
“Late for Leaving”
Before my time, my mother worked with this guy who would often leave early on his lunch break, stay away for three hours, and come back about 30 minutes before the end of the work day. Usually he would mention that he did this because he didn’t want to be “late for leaving.” There’s a …
“Me Too” Movement
Actress Alyssa Milano suggested on Twitter that women who have been the victims of sexual harassment state so by using the hashtag “MeToo.” The concept went viral on both Twitter and Facebook, and continues going strong. Around the world, and, on my own Facebook/Twitter feeds. For truly it is everywhere, and truly, it is pervasive …
Slog.
The last few weeks, maybe months, I’ve been up against some internal resistance in my fiction writing. I once described this experience not as writer’s block, but as writer’s weight, and I seem to be suffering from a heavy dose recently. I don’t know exactly why, I wish I did, so I could fix it. As with …
Ty Unglebower 