Somewhere in between early college and late college, my media purchasing habits changed. I went from needing a physical copy of everything, to preferring a digital copy or a free copy I could return once I was finished with it. Maybe this could be because I was sick of moving all that junk every time I moved during college (every year), or maybe it was because I got older and was more realistic about whether I was really going to watch that movie or read that book again. I’ve been …

My mother just graduated from college a few days ago with her four year degree. She went back to school two years ago to turn the associate’s (in accounting) she earned twenty-five years ago into a bachelor’s. She went back to school to finish, after twenty-five years of accounting experience, because she was having trouble getting paid what she was worth without a four-year degree.
Of course, over the course of two years of studying and racking up student loan debt, she did take a few accounting classes. But for the …

Back in ye olde times, the idea of the sponsored artist seems like it was more prevalent. Dudes named after Ninja Turtles would get a long gig painting church ceilings and stuff like that, and it seems like it worked, since there are a bunch of painted church ceilings now.
Plus, rich people, like kings with big egos, would appoint artists to hang around and create art – there would be the King’s Juggler and the King’s Toilet Painter and the King’s Underground Dance Troupe.
Nowadays kings are mostly gone and ye …