Welcome to musings about the past, the present, and the future.
Hello traveler! I am Mils or Margaret Wilson Merritt, scholar, author, researcher, and lover of good food and coffee. Here you will find essays and short fiction about things pertaining to the modern day and how they are informed by the past, and what they suggest we carry (or not) into the future. Read to your heart’s content, and there are ways to contact me and other social media and content below. The buttons below are coming soon!
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Witch Hanging in the 21st Century
For the first time in my life, federal law says that I do not have full bodily autonomy, and the way things are going, I may soon not have the right to marry as I wish – again. In the age of information, of shifting tides, facing our planetary impact, iPhones, electric cars, new vaccinesContinue reading “Witch Hanging in the 21st Century”
The Most Effective Messy Fish
It’s a scientific truth that evolution is a thing, but I think that most people might think it makes more sense than it does. No one thing is ‘the fittest’ for instance – in Darwin’s Origin of Species, he describes two beetles adapting to cope with high winds. One lost its wings, while the othersContinue reading “The Most Effective Messy Fish”
Old Tales
A typical symptom of being in college is difficulty or just being unable to read at leisurely pace. Everything is on the clock, and you quickly teach yourself how to read 50-100 pages in a day and absorb enough information. I was always a fast reader, now I was a lightning blot. You got toContinue reading “Old Tales”
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