2018 Holiday Advent Calendar Unveiling: December 7
So kind of a weird story today. In fact, it’s not even really a story, but I felt like I had somewhat insightful comments on it nonetheless.
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The circle of neglect! I’m dyin’! 😂
I believe my husband deserves the credit for that one
December 7, A Qualitative Study of Our Father: Shades of my BSc in Psychology and current work as an academic editor. A well thought out experiment and an interesting way of children dealing with potential abuse (the abstract was quite telling). So many short stories with footnotes (I did like the inclusion of the Appendix, though)! I will never look at fly swatting the same way again.
haha me too!
Sounds… hmm, I’m trying so hard to find a polite synonym for awful… But I do love the idea of the Circle of Neglect!! 😂
hahah yes it’s got a particular ring to it, doesn’t it?