Mass Shootings, False Flags and False Logic

Mass Shootings, False Flags and False Logic

February 20, 2018February 21, 2018 MayaMashed Potatoes

I wrote this essay in 2016 after the Pulse massacre in Orlando. I rerun it now in the wake of another Floridian tragedy—the Valentine’s Day massacre at a Parkland, Florida high school, which took 17 lives, most of them high school students. In between, of[…]

Confessions of a Ghost Writer: the Big Scary

September 26, 2017August 14, 2018 MayaA Writer on Writing

I read a column this morning in CodeLikeaGirl (on Medium) in which Kira Leigh eloquently expressed the sheer scariness of pursuing a career as a freelancer. I was compelled to respond because while Kira is fairly new at freelancing, I’ve been doing it for a[…]

Some Thoughts of Freedom of Speech

August 20, 2017September 19, 2017 MayaMashed Potatoes

“And yet, however just these sentiments will be allowed to be, we have already sufficient indications that it will happen in this as in all former cases of great national discussion. A torrent of angry and malignant passions will be let loose. To judge from[…]

Do You Have the “Right” Mindset?

May 30, 2017May 30, 2017 MayaMashed Potatoes

NPR recently ran a story that analyzed proposed cuts to government aid programs that stated the underlying premise behind those cuts: Government aid is holding [many people] back. Without it, many more of them would be working. It goes on to say: Office of Management[…]

This is … Something I Stumbled Upon

April 11, 2017April 11, 2017 MayaMashed Potatoes

… in my reading. I opened up the copy of the Federalist Papers I keep in iBooks, and saw that I’d highlighted a passage some time ago. I read it to see if it still resonated. Yes, I really do keep the Federalist Papers on[…]

This is … Something I Saw the Other Day

March 18, 2017March 16, 2017 MayaMashed Potatoes

This is … a gathering of Macaws are apparently chatting while their custodian is having lunch at a local Boulanger. They are not tethered in any way, nor was their guardian anywhere in sight. He (or she) had gone into the restaurant for a bite …[…]

“This is…” a Photo Journal

March 16, 2017 MayaA Writer on Writing

I was poring over my cache of photos and images this morning and decided that I’d like to share them with y’all (in my opinion, the single most useful word concatenation in the universe) in a sort of photo journal. I’d love for it to be[…]

Really, Really Pretending: Bowling Green

February 6, 2017February 7, 2017 MayaMashed Potatoes

There is a Baha’i prayer that invokes aid from God ”to refute what is vain and false.” Since Baha’is are also not to participate in partisan politics, finding a balance between these two mandates can be difficult. This is my attempt to apply the spirit[…]

News, Fluff and Damn Fluff

January 27, 2017 MayaMashed Potatoes

I use a news aggregator to ping me with breaking news stories. My sources run the gamut from NPR to Fox to CNN to the AP News to The Guardian to DailyMail to Breitbart to Vox. Obviously of these media outlets, NPR, Fox, Associated Press,[…]

Our Most Challenging Issue – Six

December 6, 2016December 6, 2016 MayaMashed Potatoes

The following is the entirety of Part IV of The Vision of Race Unity: America’s Most Challenging Issue. The responsibility for the achievement of racial peace and unity in the United States rests upon both Black and White Americans. To build a society in which[…]

Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff

"… fiction is an attempt to make reality behave by pretending to look the other way." — Ray Bradbury

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