What’s the most annoying trope in books or movies? Gosh. I don’t know. There are so many contenders. But lately, after binge-watching an entirely unreasonable amount of BritBox, I’m noticing a pattern. The female detective who is slightly off. Odd. Socially uncomfortable. Probably lives alone. Sees patterns no […]
I’ve been deep in an email purge lately. Archaeology of the digital kind. Dusting off threads, deleting ghosts, time-traveling one subject line at a time. Somewhere between “unsubscribe” and “why did I save this,” I stumbled on an email I sent to myself back in October 2022 with […]
What villain actually had a good point? I’ve been thinking lately about villains. A lot. I’ve been binging on true documentaries as if they were dumplings (which I cannot get enough of, seriously). Here’s the thing. Not the cartoonish, twirl-the-mustache, burn-it-all-down types. Not the ones who are evil […]
This may be the most 2026 headline we get all year. A DoorDash delivery robot wandered into an active SWAT scene and refused to evacuate. Of course it did. Why wouldn’t it? The robot has no amygdala. No anxiety. No “maybe I should not be here while heavily […]
I went out for a drink. Just a drink.Not a psychological summit on love, denial, and why some women bail out men who have *lliterally confessed to murder. And yet. Somewhere between the second sip and the bartender’s raised eyebrow, I found my people. A cluster of women […]
There are many ways to respond to chaos. You can panic.You can flee.You can duck under a table and question every life decision that led you to a ballroom full of politicians and chicken entrées. Or you can be Michael Glantz. And keep eating your salad. This past […]
There are crimes of desperation.There are crimes of opportunity.And then there are crimes that make you pause, tilt your head, and whisper that you kind of kind of get it. Case in point somewhere between Italy and Poland, 12 tons of Kit Kats were stolen. Vanished. Liberated. Rehomed. […]
I binged Love & Death on Netflix on a cold weekend. Although, to be fair, every weekend has felt cold lately in all forms including emotionally, existentially, meteorologically. Pick one. The series, based on true events, opens on something deeply familiar. Two churchgoing couples, suburban Texas, kids, casseroles, […]
Life has officially gotten ridiculous. I say this as someone who generally rolls with the punches, believes reality is fluid, and accepts that nothing ever goes exactly as planned. But even I had to pause this week and reread a headline that felt less like news and more […]
Sometimes you read a headline that makes you double-take, rub your eyes, and mutter, “No, surely this must be from The Onion.” But no. Real life, yet again, outdoes satire. A neurosurgeon. Yes, a brain surgeon has been arrested for what officials described as “an incredible lack of […]
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