"I thought to tap into the bodily systems, such as the renal system and the digestive system, and to try to imagine, you know, in a future state where our so...

Drunk Shopping May Contribute $45bn to the US Economy "Writers, editors and artists--tortured, oft-inebriated chroniclers of the human experience--are actual...

Poetry, the soggy concept of STEM in classrooms, dogs, Pokemon NO.

Most Victorian Christmas ghost stories aren't interested in redemptive morality. They just want to scare the shit out of you.

I'm a few weeks into my MA program at the big local uni. Adjusting to the additional demand on my time proceeds more or less well, though an exciting work tr...

This morning I went to the supermarket, slung a basket over my forearm, and loaded up on fresh food: spinach and mango and pineapple, red onions and raspberr...

1. Find, then destroy the haunted mirror Jacob Rees-Mogg returns to each night 2. Have someone beloved by the nation explain what’s happening, because nobody...

I've now had four conversations with men on dating apps end like this: Him (Aged 37-45): Oh, you have a kid? Me: Yes, it's there in my profile. Him: haha, we...

Part of my job is social media management, and part of social media management involves Instagram. I make posts to shift e-books, draw clicks to blog posts, ...

When I was a little girl there was a period when I spent Sunday nights in the grip of terrible sadness. I would lie on the top bunk in the room I shared with...

Over the weekend, most of the world commemorated the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I. In the U.S., November 11th used to be Armistice Day - speci...

Happy Election Day. There are so many, many excellent reasons to vote today. Because you have an inspiring new candidate running in your Congressional distri...

(Disclaimer: Complete, major spoilers follow for both Shirley Jackson’s 1959 novel The Haunting of Hill House and the television adaptation by Mike Flanagan ...

Thank you for visiting El Salvador Blanco Family Agency! Our foster and adoption registers are currently bursting with unfortunate youngsters who absolutely ...

TITLE: JUDGE OF CHARACTER PAGES: 148 GENRE: Drama/Satire (?) LOGLINE:  A young conservative judge’s past comes back to haunt him during his nomination to the...

Birmingham, 30 September - 7 October Monday 1115 I am leaving my gym when I glance through the windows overlooking the pool. The aquarobics class is in sessi...

Welcome to Sunday—a Sunday following a week that had a century’s worth of news in it. For many of us, it’s been a week that took us all back to our darkest s...

I’m currently in a rebuilding phase. If you read Sunday’s post, you’ll have twigged that I moved to the UK for love and wound up getting divorced. The divorc...

Thirteen years ago this past Saturday, I arrived in the U.K. from America as a new bride. For fully one-third of my lifespan—pretty much my entire adulthood—...