Louisa Martin shares the same birthday as me. No, this is not the start of a Wattpad romance novel. I say this because before this production cycle, the only interactions I had with Louisa were us congratulating each other on our birthdays, without fail, year after year. As far as…

I hate Governor Ron DeSantis I would never think I would side with the international conglomerate media supergiant, but here I am, defending Disney. So, let’s all take a deep breath and have a quick moment of silence for all of their underpaid employees. Okay, here we go. In the…

I hate patriotism. I’ve been getting a lot of TikToks on my For You Page talking about red flags in relationships, and they just keep getting more and more specific. There is, somehow, an agreed consensus against the Kia Soul, women with too many squishmallows and men with names starting…

I was in Los Angeles two weeks ago for the JEA Convention. I mean, I was really there to hang out and have fun with journalism people, but secondary to that was the convention itself, which ended up being a short sliver of the experience, somehow. There was a guy…

I hate militarism. One of the most jarring things to hear is when US military personnel are called “heroes.” Why are they heroic? Are they heroic because of the simple act of fighting? …

There are a lot of ways in which stories in journalism can be seen as dificult. Some staffers believe the interview count to be the determinant for difficulty. Some believe in the “make-interesting” scale, measuring the skill it takes to make a boring topic exciting to read. Both are valid…

I hate airplane leg room. Some three years ago, I was going to visit family in China. For those who’ve traveled to Asia, you know that it’s about a 24 to 28 hour span of just traveling, commuting or doing whatever it is just to reach your destination. …

I hate the suburbs, part 2–1960s to present. A tattered lawn chair, a hammer and a few pieces of plywood disappeared from my childhood equivalent of a treehouse at an unknown time. Actually, that entire place is now gone, along with everything in it, at least since December, the last…

I’m quite intimidated by those college and high schoolers who have like four or five Scholastic Gold Medals. …