Introduction I have spent a lot of time in my life studying what most people call “true crime”. I am not an oracle on the topic per se, but it is a topic that I have been interested in since I was about seventeen years old. A girl I went on a few dates with […]
Introduction There was an act of violence that happened recently that has been on my mind. I have been interested in crime and acts of violence that are motivated by ideology and extreme belief since I was a younger person. The interest in motivation and the connection between mental illness and deviant behavior came to […]
Introduction When I was a kid I read a book called The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown. This book is a historical fiction action thriller book that is about some people trying to protect a secret about the life of Jesus Christ – that he had a bloodline through Mary Magdalene and that secret […]
Introduction My father teaches classes about plants at a local university. When I was a kid, there was a program where he would take his students out on horseback and go on local day trips. In this class, they would practice identifying local plants, birds, and animals by common name and scientific name. My parents […]
Introduction I want to write an autobiography eventually. Or maybe work with a biographer later in life. Or maybe publish a bunch of stories from my life some day. I don’t know what form these stories will take, but I do want to eventually tell stories from my life in a document. I don’t know […]
3.14.24 Introduction Something I haven’t talked a lot about on my blog is religion and topics of faith. I have talked a little bit about my time as a service missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS) in a different blog post. But I have never talked in depth about my […]
Introduction America has the highest incarceration rate in the world. This includes nearly two million people, or almost one percent of the adult population in the country1. While sixty-three percent of these people are held in state prisons for violent crimes, the rest of those held in state prisons are for nonviolent crimes. One staggering […]
Introduction In the early twentieth century, there was a fledgling discipline called sociology. Long story short, this discipline was interested in studying societal trends and phenomena, and why different groups of people do different things. One of the first major social phenomena that sociologists studied was crime. Park and Burgess (1925) from the University of […]
North Carolina Ten Years On When I was a kid I was raised in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS). For anyone unfamiliar with the LDS church, it’s a conservative church that emerged from the Second Great Awakening of the early nineteenth century. The LDS church believes that it is the church […]
9.1.23 My Life As An Artist I want to write about art. This is just going to be my thoughts about art. Art and “art.” One of my earliest exposures as a child to what it means to be an artist was Schroeder from Peanuts. He’s the guy who plays the very small piano. He […]
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