This piece is about how wanting to be thinner can slowly change the way you see yourself and your body. It explores insecurity, comparison, and the feeling that no matter how much you change, you are still never “small enough.” It also focuses on how the word “healthy,” which is usually meant as a compliment, can feel completely different when your mind connects being skinny with beauty, control, and worth.

I knew who Tina Turner was long before 1984. But when “What’s Love Got to Do with It” hit, the woman I thought belonged to my parents’ generation suddenly became one of the biggest stars of mine. I was young, learning to sing and perform, and more than once I found myself wearing the Tina wig. But what I understand now is that I wasn’t simply imitating a performer. I was watching a Black woman over forty reclaim her name, her career, her body, her music, and her life. Tina Turner didn’t just survive. She won. And she was what I wanted to be when I grew up. She still is.

I met Pink Floyd through the ultimate Gen X reflex: “Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2.” What began as the delicious rebellion of kids pushing back against authority opened the door to something much bigger: Money, Have a Cigar, Wish You Were Here, The Wall, and a strange, brilliant musical world filled with questions about conformity, anxiety, time, isolation, mortality, and being human. Pink Floyd gave us the sound before some of us were old enough to understand the meaning. The music didn’t change. We did.

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Aerosmith had already lived one rock-and-roll lifetime when an old song collided with Run-D.M.C. and introduced them to a new generation. But “Walk This Way” wasn't simply a comeback. It opened the door to an extraordinary second career filled with new hits, unforgettable MTV videos, massive tours, movies, and a band that somehow became ours, too. From Steven Tyler's unmistakable voice to “Livin' on the Edge,” this is the story of a classic-rock giant that didn't just survive changing times. Aerosmith found a way to become young twice.

I grew up loving the San Francisco 49ers before there was much to brag about. Then Bill Walsh arrived, Joe Montana took the field, Ronnie Lott became our monster, Jerry Rice joined the magic, and at my very first football game, I watched Dwight Clark make The Catch. Years later, the team would even become part of my love story. Tonight, as a new generation of 49ers takes the field, I’m remembering what it meant to grow up Faithful. I was there. And I’m still here.

If you've spent hours immersed in a dynamic—following instructions, surrendering control, opening up emotionally, or allowing someone into vulnerable places you don't normally share—your brain doesn't necessarily care that there was a laptop between you...

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Every town has something it tells you to fear after dark. The trouble is, everybody keeps looking in the same direction.

The Go-Go’s gave Gen X girls infectious songs, MTV memories, and something we didn’t fully understand at the time: an example of how to survive. We watched five women become rock stars, ride fame to its wildest heights, fall apart, battle their demons, and eventually find their way back to one another. Today their music may not be as constantly heard as some of their ’80s peers, but their influence never disappeared. They didn’t lecture us about resilience or sell us a motivational program. They simply fell, got back up, and let us watch. 🎸❤️

## **Excerpt from “Praise Song for the Black Women Poets of This Century”** They write the body back to itself. They write Black girlhood in full color. They write mothers, lovers, fugitives, saints, skeptics, dreamers, and witnesses. Their lines refuse erasure. Their metaphors carry water to generations thirsty for a language of becoming. And when they speak, the page does not remain a page— it becomes a doorway, a gathering, a drumbeat, a dawn.

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Even though I only wrote a line I showed up; but I need to participate in my system. This stream allows you to share and monetize whatever it is you are writing about.

Even tho I only wrote a line I showed up. And each of these notes are online late physically I was still writing them everyday.

Sixty years ago, Star Trek began a journey I wasn't there to witness. I inherited it later, through reruns and a house full of nerds who had already fallen in love with the Enterprise. Only years later, after becoming a writer myself, did I understand what those 79 episodes had really given me. Beneath the aliens, cardboard rocks, strange new worlds, and occasional space hippies were writers willing to wrestle with racism, gender, power, faith, fascism, artificial intelligence, and what humanity might become. Star Trek didn't just give me a future to imagine. It gave me permission to ask, “What if?” 🖖

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The internet has no shortage of people calling themselves Dominants. Aaand perhaps that's the problem. Dominance isn't a title you slap onto your profile and it isn't an automatic entitlement to someone else's obedience. It's a responsibility, a relationship, and a form of power that has to be willingly given. So let's talk about what being a Dominant actually means, and why the person with the most power isn't necessarily the person who understands power best.

Ethan after waking up from a weird dream finally talks to Madelyn and meets her grandfather. They reveal the strange events going on in his life.