Ashes to Ashes

Ashes to Ashes

The 2021 New Year’s Eve fire in Boulder, Colorado that destroyed over a thousand homes and claimed three lives left countless people with little more than the clothes they were wearing. Beyond their physical loss, the victims of this fire suffered from an emotional toll brought on by the physical loss of memories and heirlooms…

Troubled Waters

Troubled Waters

Water has been used metaphorically in works of art, from stories from the Bible to today’s literature. The allegory of fighting nature’s might while drowning in turbulent waters had been widely depicted in works of art for the span of humanity, from stories in the Bible to modern-day literature and visual art. Drowning is an…

Home

Home

Many phrases celebrate the home as a center of life and happiness. “There’s no place like home”, “Home is where your heart is”, and “Home is where our story begins” to quote a few. They represent the importance of a home to a stable personal life and romanticize its status in our life. Their point,…

Frogger

Frogger

Masayuki Uemura, a hardware engineer at Nintendo, died on December 6, 2021, at the age of 78. In the ’70s and ’80s, Uemura led the development of Nintendo’s earliest home consoles and peripherals. The video games of that generation, with their slow and rudimentary graphics and their signature electronic music, became hits with kids and…

Relationships in the Information Age

Relationships in the Information Age

Those among us who have experienced dating before the age of the internet and smartphones remember a different, simpler way of getting to know other people and sailing into a relationship. Every aspect of that courtship, including romantic and platonic relationships, was conducted on a personal level. Everything you came to find about the other…