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  • 🧠 Brain Static #7

    Water might not actually be wet. Hear me out. “Wet” generally describes what happens when a liquid sticks to the surface of something. So when water touches your shirt? Your shirt is wet. When water touches your skin? Your skin is wet. But water itself? Depending on how you define wet… it might not be.…

  • Sunday Things #7

    Last Sunday, I ended Sunday Things by deciding that whatever needed me could become Monday’s problem. Apparently Monday took that personally. Because Monday arrived, took one look at me, and said: Fine. YOU can become Monday’s problem. 😂 I spent almost the entire beginning of this week sick. Not cute sick. Not curl up under…

  • 🐇 Down the Rabbit Hole #1

    Why Does Time Feel Faster the Older We Get? I have a question. Actually, I had a question. Now I have approximately seventeen questions, several theories, and a mild existential crisis. So naturally, I’m bringing all of you with me. Welcome to Down the Rabbit Hole—the place where I wonder about something completely normal, look…

  • Between the Lines #5: Monsters

    I used to think growing up meant learning that monsters weren’t real. Monsters As we got older,the monsters crept from under our bedsto inside our heads. We stopped checking closets. Stopped leavingthe hallway light on. Stopped pulling blanketsover our facesbecause someone told us there was nothing there. And we believed them. For a while. We…

  • Learning to Look Closer #7: Meet Sandy

    I think I accidentally made a squirrel friend. Her name is Sandy. Did she tell me that? No. Did I ask? Also no. She’s Sandy now. 😂 It started with me feeding her once. Then I fed her again. And again. And again. So at this point, I’m not entirely sure whether I’m observing nature…

  • 🧠 Brain Static #6

    Sharks are older than trees. Not a tree. Trees. Sharks were swimming around before forests existed. I don’t know why, but this makes trees feel significantly less impressive. Until next time, —Destiny P.S. What’s something you assumed had existed basically forever?

  • Sunday Things #6

    I think I accidentally opened a daycare this week. I don’t remember applying for a license. I don’t remember filling out any paperwork. But there were three children in my house for most of the week, somebody was always coughing, somebody was always pooping somewhere they weren’t supposed to, and at one point I had…

  • History After Dark #3

    The Bell Witch Where History Ends and the Haunting Begins Welcome to History After Dark. The kind of history that didn’t quite make it into your textbooks.   The Legend By December of 1820, John Bell was dying. He had been sick for some time, and whatever was happening to his body had gradually left…

  • Between the Lines #4: When the Wind Carries Secrets

    Some things are easier to say when you don’t know who’s listening. When the wind carries secrets,I wonder if mineare still looking for me. I have whispered so many thingsinto the open air—names I no longer say aloud,prayers that never reached heaven,apologies that belongedto someone else. I imagine the windkeeping them all. Tucking them beneath…

  • Learning to Look Closer #6

    see this thing all the time. It’s a sensory board we have at work, covered in hundreds of tiny sequins. The kids can run their hands across them, flip them back and forth, change the colors, make patterns, or sometimes just enjoy the feeling of them moving beneath their fingers. Normally, I see it from…