The Phoenix Zine

I pride myself on being an intellectual.  If I can reason my way through things, then maybe I can avoid the messiness of feeling emotion.  Pain, anguish, disappointment, fear, uncertainty; if I think hard enough, then maybe I can think my way out of feeling entirely. And that’s how I cope.  When I get close [...]

Call it fortune, call it fate, call it God; there are still a lot of things we don’t understand about the way the world works and why some people appear to be blessed while others appear to be cursed.  Is it karma?  Do we reap what we sow or is there some divine being calling [...]