by KimBoo York | Feb 1, 2020 | Fiction, Ponderings
What makes a popular story? I don’t mean a great one, although many are both, but rather a story where the setting, the characters, the events become legends? Actually, I think my question is: what makes a legendary story? I wonder about this a lot because that is the...
by KimBoo York | Jan 16, 2020 | Life and all That, Ponderings
Disclaimer: This is an essay about the emotional state of freedom as a mindset, but I do not buy into the belief that we create our entire reality — we live in a world with other people, with politics, with wars, with disease. Externally, we are all restricted at some...
by KimBoo York | Dec 16, 2018 | Ponderings
Everybody has an Internet persona. In fact, these days, it’s more than common for most people to have multiple Internet personas, only one of which might be called “real”. People create identities that are specific to platforms or their interests, and we barely...
by KimBoo York | Dec 9, 2018 | Ponderings
In the past I always operated with the idea that if I do things well enough in the present moment, that if I am RIGHT and PROPER in my actions, then everything in the long term would sort itself out. I call this the Middle Class Coasting mindset. Financial crises were...
by KimBoo York | Apr 21, 2018 | Life and all That, Ponderings
[the following originated as a facebook post; I have expanded on it extensively here so it’s not the same text, but incorporates it and delves deeper into the idea.] I am so weary of cynicism. I get that it is my default, along with sarcasm, as a response to...
by KimBoo York | Feb 11, 2018 | Fiction, Ponderings
Back in 2010 or so, I wrote a book I call Grieving Futures detailing the slow collapse of my family and my emergence from that as an adult orphan. It’s a painful book and in retrospect I’d write it very differently, if I were writing it today. But it is...
