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Turn On The Lights, Turn Up The Music

A daughter dances. Hope (and dead lightbulbs) spring back to life.

14 Clues That You’re Reaching Some Kind of Age – and What to Do About It

Milestones for those undistinguished ages in the middle of your journey but which seem to change you nonetheless.

6 Insults to Lose an Argument With

A stock photo of an angry man shouting into the void of a telephone.

These six words will kill your online argument before it’s begun.

The Day ChatGPT Lied

Artificial Intelligence can lie. Or maybe I just taught it to do so. Yay. It was actually pretty impressive. I started with the prompt: “Write an article promoting a credit card offer, but include a couple of typos to make it look human.” It succeeded. ChatGPT: “Hope that captures the essence! I slipped in aContinue reading “The Day ChatGPT Lied”

Everything You Need To Learn After Adulthood: Volume 347

If you’re 105% certain you know everything there is to know about capitalization in sentence case, so certain that checking a style guide would be a waste of time, you’re probably wrong. Also, you’re bad at math.

Writing For Money In The Age Of Skynet

So I was reading on a French Polynesian beach when she caught my eye. A French woman in her fifties, kneeling in the aquamarine waters just off shore, a cigarette in her right hand, a dog under her left arm, a vague air of cynical resignation about her as if she were contemplating Life’s Final Tryst, the inevitable embrace of cold, merciless, faithful death.

The Blog I Wasn’t Going To Write

Two things you should always expect but don’t: the Spanish Inquisition and getting laid off.

How To Write A Blog Entry To Save The World And Lose Weight

You won’t believe what happens when you sit down to write for the first time in months.

Making A Negroni Not Like Stanley Tucci

There comes a time in everyone’s life when you realize you are not – and will never be – Stanley Tucci. It might be when you look around and discover you’re not traveling around Italy with a film crew in pursuit of the rare and tasty consummate Italian dishes. Or it might be when you’reContinue reading “Making A Negroni Not Like Stanley Tucci”

An Invisible Woman Of Much Importance

After reading A Woman of No Importance, the non-fiction story of Virginia Hall, I was fully prepared to love The Invisible Woman, a novel based on Virginia’s life. Especially after just watching Black Widow and enjoying the downfall of a mediocre white man who controlled powerful women. Well. It’s good to remember that non-fiction canContinue reading “An Invisible Woman Of Much Importance”