Octavia Butler has long been a hero of mine. As a huge fan of The Parable of the Sower, I found her writing deeply moving and her insights into possible futures both uncanny and profound. She had a mind that churned out groundbreaking science fiction in a predominantly white, male-dominated era. Her novel, The Parable…
Every year as Academy Awards season comes around I start wondering to myself whether or not I should bother to watch any of the nominated movies. I used to watch most of them every year, but as time has gone on I’ve gotten pickier about what I’ll spend my time doing. I figure a lot…
One of the most common mistypes in the typology world is the ISTP or ISTJ mistype. I’ve met many ISTPs who consistently get ISTJ results on personality tests. ISTPs are often mistyped as ISTJs or vice versa. There are a lot of reasons for this, but one of the main reasons is that ISTPs have…
The captivating universe of ‘1923’, a new series streaming on Paramount, takes us back to the roots of the Dutton family saga we’ve come to love in ‘Yellowstone’. As a gripping prequel set amidst turbulent times, it offers an array of compelling characters whose personalities, of course, I had to decipher as I watched the…
ISTJ children are the quiet observers of the playground, the serious students deeply engrossed in their textbooks, and the old souls who navigate life with a steady hand. They are the children who remind us that even in youth, there’s a depth of character that belies years. As a society, we may see these children…
