Let’s talk about the rich people who don’t know they’re rich
I’m going to tell you a little story about some people I know.
These people are perfectly nice, pleasant, community-minded people. …
Hint: It wasn’t a President
One of Thanksgiving’s most lighthearted traditions is the presidential pardoning of one lucky turkey.
But fans of this classic Thanksgiving custom might be surprised to learn it originated long before the television and PR-friendly events that we recognize today.
According to Smithsonian Magazine, the history of a turkey being spared…
Not the person who makes it
Yeah, this is another Kyle Rittenhouse story. Bear with me.
Mostly, I have not been following the Kyle Rittenhouse news. …
If I thought I could be a successful salesperson, I would just work in sales, and make a lot more money
A while back it dawned on me that I was never going to make any worthwhile money here, and that was okay. So I quit. But, I’m still around. I read authors I enjoy, and sometimes I still write because I just enjoy the act of writing.
Now as I…
A review of “The Whistleblower,” by Kathryn Bolkovac and Cari Lynn
I warn you: once you start reading whistleblowers’ stories, you won’t be able to stop.
I am fascinated by whistleblowers, so I have been steadily working my way through every book my local public library has about or by these brave souls who see wrongdoing and…get this…REPORT IT.
A review of Rosa Brooks’s “Tangled Up in Blue”
I’m a total sucker for police procedurals, in both book and TV form (hello The Wire, best TV program ever), so it should come as no surprise that I found Rosa Brooks’s new book Tangled Up In Blue: Policing the American City, to be a fascinating read.
Brooks, a journalist…
Or, How everything in my son’s school mirrors what is wrong in the world
My kid is in fifth grade, which in my school district is in the middle school.
I think that is ridiculous, to start with, fifth graders should not be middle schoolers, but that is another story for another time.
So this week he came home from his fifth-grade class, where…
But you’re going to fail
I used to say that my favorite things about living in the twentieth century were antibiotics and indoor plumbing.
Those are pretty much still my favorite things about existing in the twenty-first century. Fuck the Internet. …
Yeah, yeah, smartphones are handy when your car breaks down. That’s about it.
I’m never going to not miss the 1990s. Sorry; not sorry.
My nostalgia is probably more rooted in the fact that I was young in the 1990s and I felt good and my family members were all still healthy and the world (although headed there, I’m sure) wasn’t yet completely…
A review of Debora Harding’s Dancing with the Octopus
I read a lot of True Crime. I know. People think it’s weird. I don’t. I actually have several good reasons for reading True Crime. But one of the biggest and most valid reasons to read this nonfiction genre, in my opinion, is simply that they are often really thoughtful…
Sarah Cords
“I don’t want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything.” Author of “Bingeworthy British Television.” Fellow curmudgeons welcome at citizenreader.com.
