Is The New Pope a Cubs or White Sox Fan? And Other Burning Questions
Knowing that a man who’s well on his way to becoming a household name internationally loves the same baseball team as you has to be a good feeling.
Negative Buoyancy
The pet clinics around me don’t even have veterinarians on staff that work with fish.
Five Games that I Somehow Still Haven’t Played
There are simply too many games to play, and they just keep making them!
Ode to Spring
The winter was long. It was bitter this year. Wasn’t it?
Eating Humble Pie
Call it shedding my “a pleasure to have in class” skin.
Thunderbolts* (2025): A Strangely Tender Return to Competence
What Thunderbolts* represents is faith rewarded, a return (even briefly) to a tradition of blockbuster competence that seemed lost to a proliferation of nightmarishly digital and dumbly unfunny slop.
What Does a Good Day Look Like?
Too often we are asking the wrong question.
Ten Years On
The room was eerily quiet as the students sat waiting for me to get ready, so I tried to lighten the mood. They all take this so seriously, too seriously.
Research Offered Me a Future
My birth story is one that my mom shares every year —she saw Lorelai do it in a Gilmore Girls episode.
Rebelling (or: Feelings Don’t Care About Facts)
Progressive politics have lost their narrative voice.
