Creative Rationale: The Art of Organizing Chaos
A Creative Rationale about Creative Rationales, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Disorder
Make Purple! Profoundly Poignant or Pointlessly Profound?
Mississippi’s tabletop sensation: turning cards purple. Is it brilliant minimalism or maximalist absurdity? Yes.
Enter the Firefly Unicorn Princess
The neon beer signs cast their familiar glow across the riverside bar’s weathered floorboards, a nostalgic backdrop for an 80s-themed night in my childhood town. Under the band’s flashing stage lights, everything sparkles just a bit too much, like memories filtered through a John Hughes lens. The crowd pulses with a peculiar mix of those […]
Healthy Eating Tips You Already Know, Damnit!
Or: “10 healthy eating tips that can go F*** themselves” Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Actually, don’t bother – we both know you have. After an embarrassingly extensive deep-dive into the vast realm of nutritional wisdom (read: frantically Googling at 2 AM while eating chips), I’ve emerged with what can only be […]
Rowing the Seven Cs
Conquered the Stormy Oceans of Self-Doubt I stared at the rowing machine like it was some kind of medieval torture device, which, let’s be honest, it basically is. Three minutes into my thirty-minute commitment, and I was already questioning every life choice that led me to this moment. This wasn’t like my usual cardio escapades—no […]
The Roommate In My Head
I walk into the kitchen, and the cabinet doors are all hanging open, like someone forgot mid-movement what they were reaching for and just walked away. There are unfinished dishes piled in the sink—half a bowl of cereal here, a knife coated in peanut butter over there. The trash hasn’t been taken out in days, […]
The “Darby” Initiative
NOTE: All names have been changed to protect those who didn’t realize their passing interactions were with someone who processes life through paragraphs, turning casual moments into contemplative essays one uncomfortable epiphany at a time. It was supposed to be an unremarkable Friday lunch—the kind where the most exciting decision should have been whether to […]
Cold Rain. Hot Tub.
Unpopular opinion: I’ve always hated hot showers. Hot baths. Any forced immersion into warmth that isn’t earned through movement or emotion. It’s like trying to trick your body into comfort, a false flag operation that never quite succeeds. By the time you adapt, by the time your cells stop screaming about the temperature differential, the […]
A Very Concerned Review of Jaws (Or: Why I Had to Watch Most of It from Behind the Couch)
I have questions. Many, many questions. First and most importantly: How did the same person who gave us the heart-warming magic of E.T. create THIS? My person says this is their absolute favorite movie, which has me seriously reconsidering everything I thought I knew about them. (I still love them, of course, but REALLY?) Three […]