My name is Michael McGuire. I am a 30-year-old songwriter, poet, and author. This is the brief story of why I have yet to graduate from college. To start with childhood, I spent most of my time alone, listening to baseball games on the radio, reading or playing guitar in my bedroom. I was a … Continue reading a college admissions essay i didn’t need to submit
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYOjWnS4cMY I'm a white man who's never been a black man. I will never know what it's like to be Donald Glover, putting this all together. But I will say that I just watched this video again, and I suddenly take away two things: 1. The song itself, which, importantly, is very very good and … Continue reading Another Analysis of Childish Gambino’s “This Is America”
Scott Hutchison's body was found last night. As of the last I read, an actual cause of death hasn't been revealed - or known, perhaps - but it isn't too difficult to come to a conclusion. That no matter how it happened, why it happened is that he wanted it to. It's a sort of … Continue reading Remembering Scott Hutchison
I try to trust in the will of some god that I feel around me sometimes. It's a funny sort of trust- that which denies itself some days, and justifies itself as well. It happens sort of randomly, I'll say that much; the back and forth of it. And yet as I go about certain … Continue reading The Feeling Of When: A Personal Essay
