Every year, holidays come and go. Every year, people decorate their houses and yards for various of the holidays. And every year, I drive past hundreds and hundreds of these decked-out residences. And yet not until this year did this particular symbolic revelation occur to me. Are the relevant phenomena more pronounced this year — or is there something in…
For the past few months, my husband and I have been watching a brilliant show called Person of Interest. If you aren’t familiar with it, the premise is that there’s a machine that sees everything and can predict threats of violence–mostly designed to prevent terrorist attacks, but its creator also uses it to try to save the “irrelevant” people–people whose…
About a week ago, I was at a coffee place celebrating a friend’s birthday. I’d had a rough day, and when I spotted a dollar theater next door, I impulsively texted my boyfriend, “Want to drive over and see a super late movie with me?” He did, and we saw Independence Day 2. It was decent, for what it was,…