Are you happy? As you read this story on your electrified, near-miracle device, are you happy? Alternatively, have your body’s corridors known happiness’s effervescent chemistry recently? You needn’t stay happy perpetually, friend, to be happy. I’ll tell you, I cry, I struggle with migraines (those are being addressed — things…

My dad tried to kill me once. He hurt me countless times — in many ways — but he tried to kill me just once. Here’s the thing about my dad. Though he abused everyone who was ever close to him in his life, he abused himself the most. My…

The “right” way is whatever feels right to you and doesn’t harm anyone else. — Consider this story My New Medium Manifesto! This one’s from my heart — and you know that’s true because I used y’all in the title. Medium is the greatest writing platform. That’s my perspective. I lurked for years before I finally created an account in 2019, and I adore the…

Number 1 will blow your mind! — Aren’t you just dying to talk about the one thing that — according to a certain subset of media sources — is perpetually on our minds? What’s that topic? Cancel Culture! Doesn’t merely reading the phrase fill you with existential dread? You hear about it regularly. “Real news” channels always…

I’m usually a peacenik, but not today, Putin! — “Fuck around and find out,” goes a meme that drips with “I dare ya!” That phrase flies in some argumentative corners of Twitter and other social media dens. If a viral video or photo shows someone paying a heavy price for their actions, scrolling through the post’s replies is a…

Thrifty Words 100 Challenge #58: Home — Sixteen and badass, Q pees on a towel. This picky puss knows lowly litter mustn’t receive his golden flow. Once, burly Q just couldn’t wee. It was a Sunday, but Q was family, so to the premium-priced animal hospital, my spouse and I swept him. I don’t recall each treatment…

What a shameful way to treat Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson! — Y’all, I need to talk about Tucker Carlson, mostly because he won’t STFU! As is his core habit, smarmy-faced Tucker made a complete ass of himself on the March 2, 2022, edition of his show — Tucker Carlson Tonight — when he attempted to “light up” U.S. President Joe Biden’s…

Scribe like Asimov! — Why do you know Isaac Asimov’s name? What’s the core reason? You might think it’s because he wrote popular sci-fi and futurist works like Bicentennial Man and I, Robot. Like those, several of his works were turned into movies. I submit that the main reason you know Asimov is simple…

Shame on Judge Regina Chu and her “sentence”! — On a February day in a Minnesota courtroom in 2022, Hennepin County Judge Regina Chu said of Kim Potter, “She never intended to hurt anyone.”¹ Ex-police officer Potter’s actions 10 months earlier fly in that statement’s face. …