August has always seemed to me a weird month. In my part of the world, August represents heat, storms, and a sense of rush that comes with the end of summer and realizing one hasn't yet done everything they set out to do that season. Children lament the end of their daily freedoms as they… Continue reading Dog Days
Haters Gonna Hate
So an interesting thing came up on the PostModern Jukebox Facebook page a week or so ago. A listener made some comments about how he was tired of PMJ doing covers of modern hits in styles of a different era. Why can't they just cover the hits of those eras? Never mind that re-stylized covers… Continue reading Haters Gonna Hate
How Far We’ve Come
A few weeks ago, I was cleaning out some old papers from Baron's filing cabinet and came across a receipt dated August 8, 2014. I smiled as I remembered that night. It was a Friday, and I was curled up in front of a fan, banging randomly on my laptop keys in the hope of… Continue reading How Far We’ve Come
The Garden of Entenmann’s
When I was a little girl, my grandfather used to play the most delightful pranks in the garden. If you planted a watermelon seed there first thing in the morning, it would be grown and ripe by dinnertime. Cheerios sprouted entire boxes of doughnuts still in their packaging. Popsicle sticks similarly bloomed, the audacity of… Continue reading The Garden of Entenmann’s
Implementing Experiments
AUTHOR'S NOTE: This started off as a reply to teh_leet_haxor's article from earlier this week. It is an unwritten rule with the RCM Creative team that if one's reply post starts acquiring its own footnotes, it's usually best to spin off onto it's own seperate (but connected) article piece. Due to a combination of sleep… Continue reading Implementing Experiments
Playlist for 2015 Year in Review (Part 1)
Welcome to the halfway point of the year! From the onset, 2015 was destined to be a banner year - the kind of story that was packed with so much that a narrative would be epic and the movie version a two-parter. And since I'm narrating this story, that means the soundtrack would be a… Continue reading Playlist for 2015 Year in Review (Part 1)
The Back-up Speech (or, my message to the Class of 2015)
Many of you who know anything about me personally are aware of the fact that "Murphy's Law" applies to my projects on a fairly constant basis. Many of you also know that in my alternate life as a university administrator, I have served on the campus graduation committee for the past nine seasons. As with… Continue reading The Back-up Speech (or, my message to the Class of 2015)
Happy Constitution Day Norway!
Gratulerer med dagen! Today marks the celebration of Norway's Constitution Day. Usually referred to as syttende mai (17 May) or Nasjonaldagen (The National Day) in Norwegian, the holiday commemorates the date when the nation's constitution was signed at Eidsvoll in 1814. What piqued my interest was the way the holiday was described to me: "Imagine… Continue reading Happy Constitution Day Norway!
Welcome to the Deep End
During my early days as an undergrad, while in a conversation about some of the summer projects I was working to set up, one of my professors made the comment that she hoped when her daughters got to my age that they turned out just like me. She meant it as a compliment, which is… Continue reading Welcome to the Deep End
Conversations With Myself (Levelling up, part one)
Author's note: Casey Felix, the journalist for this interview, is not a real person. She is a figment of Jen's imagination and the protagonist in a number of short stories and partly-written novels from when Jen was in high school. The two ladies ran into each other a few weeks ago when Jen was sorting… Continue reading Conversations With Myself (Levelling up, part one)
thefourthcastle.com 
You must be logged in to post a comment.