Dearest gentle reader, I have a confession to make: I love Bridgerton. Bridgerton is the television equivalent of a macaron. Although it’s billed as a “historical romance,” we all know what...
We often talk about what it means to live in a “post-truth world,” but what’s really interesting is when your life becomes an honest-to-God case study. This week, a military friend of mine...
Millions of nerds everywhere have been graced with a Prime Video adaptation of the Fallout games and it’s a total blast (pun fully intended, and yes, the Guardian writer linked here used it too —...
The Francis Scott Key Bridge has collapsed in neighboring Baltimore after a tragic accident — and social media is full of conspiracy theories. Twitter (I refuse to call it X) is particularly awash...
During my senior year of college, I taught a half-credit house course on Russian culture with some good friends. At that point in my life, I was still trying to fit in with my Russian relatives, the...
War is always popping off around the globe. In dealing with Russia’s full-scale invasion of my native country, I try to remember that countless generations have dealt with war. Countless more...
The fourth installment of HBO’s (I refuse to call it Max, I grew up with HBO, I’m an older woman now, get off my lawn) True Detective is already the most watched season in the show’s history...
I recently finished the second season of Reacher on Prime, and while not having read Lee Child’s books based on the character Jack Reacher, I have really appreciated the ethos of the show. A lot of...
I’ve spent most of my life being very surprised when people don’t treat me as a human being because I’m a woman. This probably had something to do with having a father who loved me fiercely. If...
This week’s bombardments of Kyiv, the ancient city of my birth, have been so severe that a piece of ceiling fell on a loved one’s head. She says she’s fine, but then again, she always says that...
