Season’s Greetings! The holidays are upon us, and with them, all sorts of new holiday fiction for 2023: romances, mysteries, and thrillers (I still consider Die Hard a holiday film). Want to dive in but don’t know where to begin? Check out these hot titles to kick off your winter TBR! Three Holidays and a…
Happy Panda! Was he really going to take us right back into the belly of the high school beast? He may as well show up wearing Willi Smith, with the Cocteau Twins in his Walkman, and a copy of Less Than Zero in his backpack.” Tim Murphy, Speech Team What if The Big Chill had…
The real measure of any time management technique is whether or not it helps you neglect the right things.” Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals I don't know about you, but since the days of errant COVID-19 my conception of time and the passing of time has been wholly transformed. I find…
Staying is not always a choice, and I have lived and lost enough to know that. But the way I think about grief is that it is the great tug-of-war, and sometimes the flag is on the side you don’t want it to be on. And sometimes, the game has exhausted all of its joy,…
Creating special language to influence people’s behavior and beliefs is so effective in part simply because speech is the first thing we’re willing to change about ourselves . . . and also the last thing we let go.” Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism What makes cults so captivating? What makes them powerful? And could cult influence…
I fell into a hole. It was probably four or five feet deep, but I’d managed to land on my feet. I looked around the grass – now at eye level – but the animal was nowhere to be found. I heard the grass rustling nearby, but before long the sound stopped. Hiroko Oyamada, The…
