So I was sitting in seat 23B on a plane heading to Denver, and this baby behind me was freaking out. When I say screaming, I mean two full hours of screaming. My earbuds were useless, and it felt like I might as well have been wearing cotton balls. The businessman who was sitting beside […]
My Uncle Rick, who turned up to our family barbecue yesterday with a pile of printouts from some polling website. “Look at these latest Presidential polls stats!” waving papers around like he had just won the lottery, as he kept repeating. Meanwhile, my aunt rolled her eyes so far I thought they might pop out. […]
Last weekend, I was browsing around on Netflix looking for something good to put on while folding laundry. Then I discovered The Hunting Wives, which came out on July 21, 2025. The title intrigued me. I mean, what the heck is a hunting wife anyway? I’ll just be straight with you; I rolled my eyes […]
I went to Shanghai for a trade show last month. However, what I saw there altered the way I think of the “China economy collapse,” which everyone’s going on about. My hotel was half empty. The usually packed restaurants had more staff than customers. Even the fashionable shopping district on Nanjing Road was eerily silent […]
So my sister calls me last Tuesday, crying. She was crying but happily crying. She’d just gotten engaged to this guy she met three months ago. Three months! I’m thinking she’s lost her mind. “How do you even know him?” I asked. “We did those 36 questions,” she says. “You know, the love ones from […]
So last Monday, my friend Jake called me up, all excited about some new Bear draft pick. “You’ve got to look up this Ozzy Trapilo guy,” he says. I’m like, what kind of a name is that? It sounds like a character from The Sopranos? It turns out that Ozzy has a fantastic backstory. And […]
My uncle Jim texted me yesterday. “Did you see what that kid at Michigan is making?” He sent me a screenshot from ESPN. It showed that Bryce was getting $10 million, and that’s a lot for a freshman who has yet to appear in a college game. Bryce Underwood is now the wealthiest college athlete […]
Dad’s been driving his 2009 Chevy Silverado since Obama was president. The thing’s got 200,000 miles and is ticking. So when he called to ask me about electric trucks, I almost spilled my coffee. “What can you tell me about that River thing?” he said. It took me a while to realize that he meant […]
My neighbor knocked on my door last week, and she was holding her phone up with this insane look on her face. “Honey, you’ve got to look at this,” she said. She’d been looking at a Facebook post, someone selling a book for ninety-nine bucks. And it was not just any book, but a tell-all […]
Okay, so picture this. So what happens is that I stumble to the kitchen at 6 in the morning, my eyes half-closed, reaching for my coffee maker. Look at this black line that’s going across my counter. For a moment, I thought I must be imagining it. Nope. Ants. Hundreds of them. They were having […]
