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Learning How NOT to Be Boring
Why scholarly articles don’t generate engagement.
“I really wanted to like the book you gave me,” she confessed with a crestfallen look.
“But I just couldn’t dig my teeth into it. Girl, I know it’s important stuff. But the dang thing reads like an encyclopedia!”
We were sitting at the elegant wooden table in the dining room of the sacred temple that is her home, enjoying a few stolen moments together over some delicious hot tea.
Her place is filled with enchanting artifacts gathered from a well-traveled, well-lived life. The details of her decor delight me, as I’m still trying to grow out of my faux-Ikea phase of life. I tend to live in my head a lot and am not so very good at living in the larger world.
My friend Bella LaVey is an accomplished author, teacher, and heavily tattooed former professional BDSM dominatrix. She’s also got her finger on the pulse of some seriously engaging creativity.
Her memoir Fetish Girl: A Memoir of Sex, Domination, and Motherhood, was one of those books I picked up and devoured in one sitting. It inspired the picture I used for this post. Sweet, sticky, nutritious, and best taken in small doses. A very visceral kind of read.
