DECEPTION

Stalking can be difficult to explain because any single incident may look small when separated from everything around it. A car passes your house. Someone sends flowers. Your ex appears …

This is suicide awareness month. Black people are being found dead and hung in 2026 under awfully suspicious circumstances. Two different terribly tragic truths running side by side. Why would …

Some of us fell in love with The Joy Luck Club before we ever saw the movie. We carried Amy Tan’s women around in our heads. Mothers. Daughters. Women trying …

 Harm does not always arrive announcing itself as hatred. Sometimes it comes smiling, agreeing with 80 percent of what you say, and spending the remaining 20 percent figuring out exactly …

  Where did people get this bizarre idea that solidarity doesn’t require respect and reciprocity…at a minimum? If you are able, you definitely want to avoid allowing people to recruit …

We’ve been conditioned to treat “no” like a legal defense. We feel the need to back it up with a deposition: “I’m busy,” “I have a boyfriend,” “Maybe next time.” …

updated from March 24 2025   Interesting fact: Before his murders were discovered, serial killer Ted Bundy volunteered at a suicide crisis hotline in Seattle called the Seattle Crisis Clinic in 1971. The …

Fall is coming. Here are some film suggestions for when the weather keeps you indoors. Most of us learned something about controlling a story long before we knew there was …

Submission is not always announced by the word “submit.” Sometimes submission arrives dressed in the moral vocabulary of its era. Yesterday it might have been obey your husband. Today it might …

Something strange is happening in the advice women are being given. We are living through an extraordinary period of sophisticated fraud. Government agencies routinely warn us about romance scammers, fake …