rhetoric

Dirty Forks in Oreo Instant Desserts: A Tale of Inauthentic Motivations, Self-Motivation, or Just Trolling?

Essays Human Behavior, humor, Psychology, rhetoric

My mother, noticeably weary yet fixing our family dinner, told me not to stick the dirty fork into the smooth creamy filling that soon be a delicious chilled Oreo pie dish. I didn’t listen. As I grew older, I saw much of the world is built upon heeding simple instructions and defying things for who […]

Fear Taught Me To Be Goofy

Essays Fear, humor, rhetoric

It is quite possible that Mickey’s pal, Goofy, may have given me an early education in controlling my Fear. The memory is still very vivid. I was six, maybe seven. I remember laying in the bed, facing the window– in the dark, in the night. The wind was screaming and pushing against the side of […]

rhetoric

Dirty Forks in Oreo Instant Desserts: A Tale of Inauthentic Motivations, Self-Motivation, or Just Trolling?

Fear Taught Me To Be Goofy

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