I’m not a word nerd, and I’m ambivalent about my ability to craft a gripping fictional narrative. But my gravitation toward language is intrinsic. The underlying structure that creates a place for the semantical flowering of mutually understood expressions is what fascinates me. Why can we say colorless green ideas sleep furiously but not green … Continue reading I Wrote a Book
Author: Dillon Bolding
Commas: “For the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed”
"If you bend a branch until it's horizontal, the sap will slow to a stopping point: a comma or colon, made of leaves grown into one another and over one another and hardened. Out of this pause comes a flower, which unfolds itself in spirals, as if the leaf form, unable to keep to its … Continue reading Commas: “For the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed”
Visiting Boston
In Boston, my phalanges glaciated, but I have endured more frigid elements in ritualistic initiations of the Boy Scouts. I did, however, buy another jacket while there and layered myself in synthetics and cottons until I was honored as the Michelin Man's cousin. I boarded several trolly-like trains and felt the squeaky irks and jerks … Continue reading Visiting Boston
Magical Mystery Ride
On this Halloween’s Eve, I helped my very best friend set sail onto a new journey. He’s flying north to Boston—a historic place in which he’ll help Boston University with some crazy super-sophisticated data science stuff that I cannot begin to fathom. As he typed away—for hours—at the Python code, sometimes I would lean down … Continue reading Magical Mystery Ride
A Post Card in Time
As Marie Kondo instructed, I laid every book I owned onto the floor. And as I reached into my pile of linguistics books, I opened the cover of this book about the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis (a famous linguistic conjecture that suggests the language(s) that one speaks influences their notions/conceptions of the world). Nestled into the bind … Continue reading A Post Card in Time
I Did Not Eat Foods With Added Sugars For 30 Days: Here’s What Happened
"I understand that this is highly likely to be significantly more difficult than when I started intermittent fasting. I am going to cause a famine in my gut microbiome, and it will result in the genocide of billions of bacteria."Said as I emptied my pantry of oatmeal cream pies Introduction Immersed in a Joe Rogan … Continue reading I Did Not Eat Foods With Added Sugars For 30 Days: Here’s What Happened
Dillon Bolding 