by Lisa Hario | Sep 4, 2020 | Thoughts
Teachers are increasingly being asked to pick up the slack of school funding—both in supplying their own classrooms, while being offered salaries that buy less and less. This shifting of responsibility is treating teaching less like a profession, and more like a...
by Lisa Hario | Aug 24, 2020 | Thoughts, Writing Life
I haven’t been sure how much I wanted to open up about my current project and pitfalls I have fallen into. It requires me being honest about missteps I have taken, or at the very least explaining my thinking and how it has evolved. This is the background to the...
by Lisa Hario | Aug 14, 2020 | Thoughts
Episode 7 of second season of In The Dark focused on the trials of Curtis Flowers. There are a lot of threads that could be teased apart in the entire Curtis Flowers story, but when interviewing the white jurors who had convicted Flowers, there was one...
by Lisa Hario | Jul 31, 2020 | Thoughts
Sitting around the campfire, the older generation will tell the younger of days past. “Once, when you wanted to watch TV, you turned to a channel and could only watch what was on.” “But, what if you wanted to binge watch?” “Maybe you would luck out and there would be...
by Lisa Hario | Jul 27, 2020 | Thoughts, Writing Life
So much horsepower, and all you got is a learner’s permit.Chaz, Sunglasses After Dark, p 141 of Midnight Blue In the scene I just quoted, Cattherine Wheele, the super powered villain, tries to pull information from Chaz, a hustler with a small psychic...
by Lisa Hario | Jul 24, 2020 | Paganism, Thoughts
I probably had the same reaction as anyone with knowledge of the Good Neighbors and a lick of sense when I learned about the #hexthefae thread on witchtok. I was originally going to write about why it is a bad idea, but then I tried to find the original post...
