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From GI Joe to Online Hydras
I grew up in a neighborhood where cable TV wasn’t a given. Most of us in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn were working with channels 2 through 13. And if you had a friend with a satellite dish, that felt like visiting… Continue reading
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Hormones Online: The Hidden Influence
When my oldest daughter got her period at a relatively young age, the chorus came quickly—grandmas, aunties, everybody with a theory: It’s the hormones in the food. Hormones in the milk. Hormones in the meat. That’s what we grew up… Continue reading
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When War Is a Punchline
A coworker walked into the office the other day and said to the room,“Have y’all gotten any telemarketer calls? I haven’t gotten any since we bombed Iran.” He’s a forty-year veteran of the company. He is the type of man… Continue reading
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The Year We Miss
Nostalgia has a timestamp.You can almost hear it if you listen closely enough. It is a year humming quietly behind someone’s memories. It’s like a familiar song you can’t quite name. Lately, I’ve been noticing a wave of Gen Z… Continue reading
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Between Screens and Sidewalks
Sometimes I catch myself watching my kids the way I watch these Florida storms roll in on the wind, feeling something is changing but unsure how fast it will arrive. Parenting my crew didn’t always feel like this. When they… Continue reading
Disappearing Sidewalks 