Adam Schlesinger — a prolific songwriter, accomplished musician, and talented collaborator — has died of complications from COVID-19. I have been a fan of his for years, especially from That Thing You Do and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, and was deeply affected by this news. I wrote this to try to explain…

I struggle with anxiety. I think it’s been around my whole life but it definitely ramped up after a severe illness in 2011 where I spent about a month on a ventilator. It gets harder to tell yourself that your fears aren’t real after you have gone into unexpected septic…

Timeless is coming back soon! I love this ridiculous time travel show. I love anything where the historian gets to save the world (I know National Treasure is flawed, whatever, don’t care). Sure, the writers don’t seem to entirely know (or care) what historians actually do. What is Lucy a…

I traveled to New York in September to see the Equal Justice Initiative’s exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum, The Legacy of Lynching: Confronting Racial Terror in America. As Bryan Stevenson, Founder and Executive Director of EJI, explains, “there’s very few places in this country where you can go and have…

Ok y’all, we gotta talk about what’s happening in New Orleans. They are taking down confederate monuments. This has been in the works for a while now. Like similar moves all across the country, the conversation began after the murders at The Emanual A.M.E. Church in Charleston, South Carolina, murders…

The Boston Museum of Fine Arts impressed me on my last visit. I know the place pretty well (and used to work there) and I’m not used to them making new and direct statements. But with their latest series of shows, especially. …

I want to take a moment to appreciate women who are terrifying. Let me explain. Most of the fictional worlds that we encounter have been built by men, especially in TV and film. Women writers are few and far between, and usually are on teams that are still mostly male…

I just finished reading Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman by Lindy West. She is a badass of the highest order and everything I aspire to be as a human: kind and tough and optimistic and working to build better worlds. In her acknowledgements, Lindy explicitly mentions Tamora Pierce audiobooks…

You should be watching Underground No other show on right now has this much heart, inspires this much empathy and feeling, or has so much pulse-pounding drama. This show is telling the stories of slavery in a way I haven't seen before. There are no uncomplicated villains (except perhaps some…