Kris Bowser

misfits, mayhem, and magical worlds

misfits, mayhem, and magical worlds

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Gears of an intelligent universe

Synchronicity is when the universe gives you pears. Character names and coincidence.
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OCD and the enchiladas of uncertainty

My experience as a writer and human living in the often-illogical landscape of obsessive compulsive disorder.
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What I Wish School Had Taught Me about Operating as a Human Being

More than a decade and a half has passed since I graduated high school, and I still find myself rehashing all the areas that my formal education failed me. Sometimes...
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The Judgmental Advice Column: Friends and Movie References

If someone hasn't seen a movie that you like, it says everything about them as a person. The Judgmental Advice Column tackles friends who don't get movie and TV references.
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The Little Badass Mermaid Anthropologist: Why Ariel is Actually Awesome

One thing I wasn’t expecting from The Little Mermaid? To find the title character herself even remotely interesting, let alone a beacon of competence and badassery in the midst of a literal ocean of incompetent and evil associates.
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Income tax, vigilantes, and other things I didn’t know about Prohibition

I assumed that renting a six-hour documentary when I have a toddler was a ridiculous act of optimism. Surely, in these tiring times, my partner and I would lack the...
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