In my opinion, she has a point about her music and the music of other artists being deemed as “white people’s music”.

Perhaps you should warn people that you’re going to ruin Don’t Worry Darling right off the bat. The experience of the film kind of depends on you not knowing what precisely is going on and figuring it out.

“He recommends relying on extension cords only for the temporary use of low-voltage devices, like charging your phone, or plugging in a TV.”

Samsung watches are mostly compatible with Android phones.  Samsung pay is the only thing that requires a Samsung phone for.

How is it “macho” to harass and terrify women anonymously from a building across the street?

My husband, at-the-time-6 month old son (Forrest), and I were visiting his family at a small lake in Missouri for the 4^th of July this year. I’m not going to give the name because it was pretty small and I’m not trying to blow anyone up with unwanted attention. We rented an Airbnb with my MIL and FIL to have a place…

Love this story! The ending had me laughing out loud - not at you, just out of recognition of that feeling of relieved consternation when something terrifying turns out to have been harmless.

I looked up the tree and I was not prepared for what the flowers look like?! They’re like weird ... crinkly ... mouths, or…

When my dad was a teenager in the late 1950s, he used to work as a dishwasher at a Mexican restaurant that was near the local cemetery. To get to work, he could either walk the long way around the cemetery, which was twice as far, or cut straight through it. More often than not, he’d opt to go through the cemetery.

A Single Flower

“The Old St. Philomena’s Hospital”

I grew up in a really small town in the early 90s. It was the kind of town where there was still a local dairy and you could get deliveries from it for milk, butter, ice cream, etc. It was kind of a sign your family was upper middle class if you got these deliveries instead of buying the cheaper stuff from the grocery…

The house on Kelly Street

In the August of 2012 my dad killed himself. Earlier in the year he’d had open heart surgery and was never quite the same after. Then he broke his jaw and a business partner screwed him over in a major way. He’d struggled with mental health issues for years but all those things combined broke his spirit. In July it…

I posted this a few years ago, but I don’t think more than 2 people read it. So here it is again!

The Watcher

Oh, I’m a bit late but hopefully this will still get seen.

This isn’t a story so much as an account of a strange time in my life. I originally wrote it up for a true horror anthology, so sorry if it’s a bit long!

This happened just last Thursday, actually, and I’m still shaken up.

I grew up in a small town in central Illinois surrounded by miles of corn fields in every direction, broken only by the interstate to the east. Class sizes hovered around 80, and it wasn’t unusual to invite half the class to parties. This was especially true for kids who lived on the outskirts of town or out in the…

Pardon the repeat from last year, it’s my only weird experience.

I gave birth to my baby girl at the end of June this year. I was in labor when the Dobbs decision came out, but that is a different kind of story for another day.