
Afternoon Snack
After a Valentine’s Day weekend that saw much of the country swept by extreme winter weather, Helena Fitzgerald’s recent essay “love and slush puddles” for
After a Valentine’s Day weekend that saw much of the country swept by extreme winter weather, Helena Fitzgerald’s recent essay “love and slush puddles” for
As we approach a series of anniversaries relating to the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, we are musing on how much has changed in work,
Well, it’s February 1, and that means it’s Hourly Comic Day, Imbolc (the halfway point between midwinter and the spring equinox), AND the first day
Another Monday, another opportunity to take a little break with your weekly Afternoon Snack. At last week’s presidential nomination, the show was stolen, thankfully not
Well, 2021 sure has been a year, hasn’t it? Take a break from witnessing the slow-motion death throes of American naïveté with the diamonds we
We’re coming out of our 2020 cage and doing just fine… kind of! Get acclimated to the new year with a fresh Afternoon Snack. Hey,
The people of earth are the true Crones of the Year, for 2020 has made crones of us all. But honestly, a surprising amount of
It’s Fake Week: a thing we just made up to describe that time between Christmas and New Year’s Day when everything, especially work, feels fake!
Happy Solstice, POMEs! We’re celebrating the shortest day of the year with some fun diversions, and some long reads for the long night. There’s a
You’ve worked hard this week, this month, this year. Take a little break with us and have a taste of the brownie-corner-pieces of the internet!
December marches on, and we eagerly await the turn of a new year, even if it doesn’t bring us instant relief from All Of It.
It’s finally getting cold in Texas and we are drinking 5 cups of tea a day (partially because of the cold and partially because it is a coping mechanism, we are allowed). In today’s Snack, we bring you something to look out for but something to celebrate as well, because that’s our coping mechanism too.