The advantage here is that you’re enjoying yourself and, at least subconsciously, thinking about the topics you assign to the songs.

Anna Karenina’s characters are players on the stage of life, ships at sea swept along by forces larger than themselves in a storm only the skillful survive… But skillful does not mean good, and good does not promise happiness.

Last Call helps, and it helps because it focuses on an industry where people are the center, creation is the fun, and, nowadays, survival is the goal. But, at some point, it’ll be about living again.

That I should be drawn to The Book of Tea is an acknowledgement of the important of balance (dare I say, temperance?)

It’s not a premise about finding happiness or satisfaction, but of that basic search for something perhaps greater than either of those things. That’s if The Sun Also Rises is to be believed. You can be valued and feel undervalued, or value something too highly that others may view as worthless. Are they wrong, or are you? Does that even matter?

A brief history of Telgora’s maps, and the struggles involved. You want behind the scenes terrible worldbuilding and casual cartography? We got it!

In which Justin declares his Haiku A Day in 2021 Challenge, plus shares January Favorites.

Infinity is something to be touched, not held. Like the first taste of a piece of dark chocolate that makes you pause and go, “Huh,” before it melts.

Reflections on productivity and how to craft a cheese board.

Cognac, Armagnac, Calvados, E&J. All the burnt wine that’s fit to drink (at least that I can afford)! The thrilling conclusion to the Home Bartending Blog Series by Justin X. M. Corriss.