I think I’m with Granny Weatherwax on this one. Granny Weatherwax, amazing practitioner of head-ology in Terry Pratchett’s hysterical and poignant Discworld series, asserts that the worst sort of crimes are cases of “treating people as things”.
When you think about it, this simple comment really does cover a lot of forms of evil. [...]

For the past few weeks I’ve been wondering about this. I had a final interview with my writing professor, and she had a number of interesting things to say. For starters, she encouraged me to check out going into a Masters programme, and named a few. I never got all the way [...]