Odin Halvorson

Our salvation is in the hands of our storytellers....

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”  ― Frederick Douglass Learning from past revolutions in information literacy, can we develop a model that suits the 21st century?...

“Freedom may be mankind’s natural state, but so is sitting in a tree eating your dinner while it is still wriggling.”  ― Terry Pratchett This is about understanding that the individual is stronger if the whole is also stronger....

Thoughts on Marie Kondo, then, and learning to live the life you have. Meditating is actually about taking care of the life you live in now. This is what Zen master Dogen said: “If you are unable to find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?...

A concise guide to communicating compassionately both online and off. Our greatest impact in the world is made through our relationships with other people — how we communicate, how we comport ourselves when we communicate, changes the world around us....

How a book on graphic novel writing changed my perspective of narrative craft....

Bernie Sanders is considering a new bid for President of the United States of America and we should all be paying very close attention. Bernie Sanders is considering a new bid for President of the United States of America and we should all be paying very close attention....

As well as 773 Million Email Addresses. And they are all up for sale. An unprecedented breach of the security of millions of people have been released and placed up for the highest bid. The time is now to secure yourself-now, before it’s too late....

Advice from a weary editor who is on your side. Ever wonder what an editor is thinking about your story? Usually, just before they start reading, they’re thinking “I hope this is good!” Here’s how to make it good....

Anyone reading this can be doing amazing things. If we’re not careful, in our quest to imitate the great entrepreneurial minds of our century, we’ll find ourselves running over a cliff....

It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of the numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single…...

And it’s called Wanda Group (among others)....

For those of us with chronic conditions, life can often feel like a series of compromises and fallbacks. I’m fortunate in many ways. I also have a chronic illness and a host of secondary, comorbid chronic conditions....

The Solarpunk ideal is a resistance to the idea that things are ever “just the way they are.” We can always make changes for the better. A practical mode of bettering ones life, the Solarpunk ideal is the realization that a resistance needs to ignite, a resistance to the idea that “things are just...

I was one of those young men who thought that Pride and Prejudice was the last thing I wanted to experience. But, oh, how I was wrong. I had accepted the prevailing masculine norm of my culture without realizing it; I had become colonized by thoughts which were not my own....