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  • 🧠 Brain Static #10

    The speed of a computer mouse is measured in “mickeys.” Yes. Mickeys. A British scientist first invented the roller-ball device in 1946 while working for the Royal Navy, but the word “mouse” didn’t come along until 1965. Which means somewhere along the way, somebody looked at the computer mouse and apparently decided its movement needed…

  • Sunday Things #10

    Some weeks make absolutely no sense while you’re living them. You just keep moving from one thing to the next, wondering what the hell could possibly happen now. And then Sunday gets here. You look back at everything that happened over the last seven days and realize… Oh. Apparently the answer was a lot. 😂…

  • History After Dark #5: Was 536 Really the Worst Year to Be Alive?

    Imagine waking up one morning and realizing the sun looks wrong. Not gone. Not hidden behind an ordinary layer of clouds. Just…wrong. The light is there, but it doesn’t seem to have the strength it should. Days pass, and whatever is happening doesn’t go away. The sun keeps rising, but its brightness doesn’t fully return.…

  • Between the Lines #8: Little Star

    Some poems start with an idea. Others start with a line you’ve known so long that you almost don’t hear the words anymore. “Twinkle, twinkle, little star…” It’s one of the first songs a lot of us learn as children. We sing it before we know what stars actually are. Before we understand distance. Before…

  • 📷 Learning to Look Closer #10

    I think one of my favorite things about doing this series is realizing that I don’t actually have to go looking for something worth photographing. Most of the time, it’s already there. I just have to notice it. And apparently this week, the things that made me stop ranged from a tiny gothic sticker on…

  • 🧠 Brain Static #9

    How lucky are we that blinking doesn’t make noise? Imagine hearing: blinkblinkblink all day long. No thank you. Except… sometimes when I blink, I do hear it. It’s this tiny little sound that apparently only I notice. So now I’m wondering— is blinking actually silent… or are most of us just lucky enough not to…

  • Sunday Things #9

    This week felt like my body and my life were operating on two completely different schedules. My body wanted heating pads, pain patches, hot baths, a recliner, and for everybody to leave me the hell alone. My life said: Cool. Anyway, you’re going back to work. The kids miss you. Your sister needs help. There…

  • 🐇 Down the Rabbit Hole #2: Bananas Are Weirder Than They Have Any Right to Be

    I learned something about bananas. And unfortunately, I kept looking. It started with this: The bananas we eat are basically clones. Which sounds fake. So naturally, I needed to know more. Most of the bananas you see sitting in grocery stores are Cavendish bananas. And unlike the wild bananas they came from, the bananas we…

  • Between the Lines #7

    The Dark I write about darkness a lot. Night. Shadows. Moonlight. Ghosts. The things that hide in corners and the things we carry where no one else can see them. If you’ve read much of my writing, you could probably assume I find some kind of comfort in the dark. And maybe sometimes I do.…

  • 🕷️ Learning to Look Closer #9 — I Looked. I Regret It.

    Usually, Learning to Look Closer is about noticing the things we might otherwise miss. The light coming through the trees. The colors hiding in a sunset. The tiny details we walk past every day because we’re too busy looking somewhere else. It’s supposed to be about slowing down. Paying attention. Finding something beautiful in the…