Author: wildninja

Someone like you. Someone who'll rattle the cages. B.A. Criminal Justice, M.A. Forensic Psychology.

Rehabilitation or Punishment?

Necrophiliac. Serial burglar. Serial rapist. Serial killer. Has used knives, guns, and his body parts to violate the living and the dead. Has said that he has an uncontrollable urge to kill. Escaped from prison, broke into a home, tied up the male resident, and raped the man’s wife. Was involved in the Attica prison […]

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Jonah and the Pumpkins

761 B.C. Gath-hepher, Lower Galilee. A dry wind envelopes a tousle-haired man mumbling to himself as he digs his staff into the ground to vault a stray boulder. “Crazy,” he says. “No way. I did not just hear that. Over my dead body.” He races on through the night, fleeing as if he were invisible […]

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Rethinking Rape

Noel Coward once said that it is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. This backward reaction is often true when men and women disclose sexual assault, especially in cases in which the circumstances of the assault do not meet the traditional definition of rape. Our society has been […]

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Head Dancing

There is a meeting room where I work in which its Miami Vice color scheme, fuzzy lighting, and muffled acoustics combine to create an overpowering snooze-inducing effect. When I sit down in this room, I soon find myself squinting and taking shallow, hamster-like breaths as a wave of sleepiness froths over me. It doesn’t matter […]

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AE House Concert

Couch cushions, Springsteen, and caprine foot trimmings, oh my. Where, you might ask, can you experience all of this and more? An Aaron English house concert, of course. If you haven’t heard of Aaron English, to quote the Geico commercial, do you live under a rock? English is a prolific songwriter and performer from Seattle […]

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Belly, Baby, & Mother Blues

Postpartum depression is a stigmatized and stereotyped phenomenon that many women suffer. Because of the hormonal, physical, and life changes that accompany childbirth, some experts say a majority of women feel emotional within a few days of welcoming a new baby.

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The Fighting Sioux

I am a Fighting Sioux, and as a woman with a few Native American ancestors and ancestral ties to North Dakota, I’m proud of it. Today I was disappointed to see an email go out from University of North Dakota leadership saying that the State Board of Education has directed the school to resume the retirement […]

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Suicide

So give me something to believe ‘Cause I am living just to breathe… –Believe, The Bravery There is a stark white space in which people sometimes find themselves in the still hours of the early morning. Its ashen walls are the accumulated debris of life’s challenges and tragedies. Its heavy ceiling has settled into place […]

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Live to Forgive

Could you forgive and love the man who murdered your mom? This is the question posed to visitors upon arrival at http://livetoforgivemovie.com/, the official site of the new Live to Forgive movie. Dean Smith was 12 when his mother was murdered by his stepfather in Enumclaw, Washington. Haunted by this sudden and violent loss, Dean’s […]

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