…and I hope mine inspires you — There’s a fly drowning in my coffee. It’s so annoying. I just made it. It’s my fault. I put so much creamer; poor fly thought it was cake and dove to his death. I’m going to have to go to the pantry and make another one. I hate going to…

The 1619 Project is the seed America tried to bury, and now the branches have come to avenge their roots — Origin My dad has two birthdays — the one on his refugee documents and one he discovered in his fifties. Like most refugee kids born in 1948, his birthday is recorded as January 1 because in the years following the Nakba, when 750,000 Palestinians became dispossessed and forced to flee their…

Reclaim your name in a magical way — Some Karens are upset about us using the term Karen to describe racist and entitled behavior…But why? It's not a personal dig unless you recognize the behavior in yourself. Anyway, I have a suggestion: Be a Karen. But be the kind of Karen we’ve all been waiting for. Take your…

I feel ten feet tall and fierce as a dragon — Someone hold my ego for a second, I finally reached 1,000 followers on Medium. I never reached 1,000- anything in my life. I thought I arrived at that number months ago, but a clean-up crew removed 400 bots from my account overnight, so I never got to write this article…

We get it, you hate women — The number of men on my timeline who find time to shit on women but never a moment to defend them is outstanding. If you had time to call Jada Smith a toxic serpent but never the time to speak out on the high rates of sexual and domestic violence…

Poulet Frit Kentucky doesn't measure up — You know when you get a whiff of junk food and it touches you deep in your soul? You had plans of chewing leafy greens to act like a respectable adult and then BOOM!!! You’re stuck with the delivery guy in the elevator and it's taking every inch of you…

The weakest men on earth need their women shackled — Preditor who paid teenager for sex believes women rallying against overturning Roe vs. Wade are over-educated. You have to be a special kind of dumbass to hurl degrees at anyone as a comeback. He hates educated women because he hangs out with cowboys who say shit like, “in our time…

Cultivate inner growth this season — Stop, smell the roses Thought it was just a saying Floating and bewitched Spring in Montreal is so gorgeous, I almost want to hold hands with someone and skip through the park. I used to think that “stop and smell the roses” was a random saying — I grew up…

Finally, someone we can count on — Everybody move out of the way. There’s a new sheriff in town. Hold on to your sandwiches, hide your kids, and don’t make eye contact. This turkey demands respect, does whatever the fuck it wants, and spits on whoever comes its way. “Definitely a female,” Sheldon Harvey, vice president of…