: About Me

I am a native Texan and someone who spends a lot of time with words. I have recently graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in English and Latin, and honestly I miss it quite a bit. I have moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan with my fiance, who is working on a Ph.D in Classics at the University of Michigan, and hope to find experience doing something in the time I'm here. I'll probably end up in an English department eventually but for right now, just writing is what I want. I'm eager to hear feedback on anything, as I'm sure most people in my position are, and hope to become a valued and valuable member of this community.

My passion is ...

reading, writing, sports (Houston), every form of art

I know too much about ...

baseball (if my experiences are any indication, your wife doesn't want the "Infield Fly Rule" explained to her)

My parents always told me ...

to do what I thought was important first and everything else would probably fall into place

My childhood ambition ...

to be president of the United States of America (and I still have a few decades left on that age limit so I've got some time)

My favorite memory ...

my first date with my soon-to-be wife (although I'm sure this will be easily supplanted by things like "Wedding Day" and "Children" when I'm older than twenty-something)

Why I write ...

I do genuinely feel like I have things to say and offer (I hope to teach eventually), but for the moment I feel like it is a marketable skill and this seems like a good place to be

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Milton, Gilmore Girls (with my fiance, but despite any amount of masculine pride, it is something I'd watch by myself), and still listening to outkast records

My first job ...

lab technician at 3M in Austin

My best moment ...

like many homesick recent graduates, "college" basically covers all of the things that would probably fit into this box

My inspiration ...

Everything, but particularly my fiance, magical realism, and chemistry

Politics, News & Issues > Political & Economic Theory How a single global currency can help end world hunger

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De facto world currencies have existed for hundreds of years, as far back as the storied "pieces of eight" or silver Spanish dollars which found use in Spanish territories in the Americas and Europe and possibly even Asia. Many countries continue to either peg the value of their local currencies to powerful currencies such as the U.S. dollar, the Euro, and Japanese yen, and some even go so far as to use these currencies exclusively in favor of printing their own. Obviously these governments which elect to integrate themselves into a larger currency system rather than creating their own loc...

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