Mary DeSantis

I’ve noticed an upswing in the casual use of the f-bomb in books and movies within the last few years. I’m not here to debate whether this is a good or a bad thing. It’s… 

“Once upon a time, I was part of a group who spent the evening at the home of a wealthy businessperson. While we engaged in a game of chance, some of my group heard a… 

Confession Time: This post exists because I went to Pixabay, typed “coffee” into the search, and found a picture with the correct dimensions for my website theme’s featured image content block. ☕ (Because there can… 

I always love an opportunity to dig out my B.A. in Psychology (not literally—I’m not actually sure which basement box it’s buried in) and yammer at the masses about psychology things they may or may… 

If I had a dime for every time in my adult life where I watched a movie I loved as a kid, got to the end, and thought “that wasn’t as good as I remember,”… 

After the reading-slump dumpster fire that was 2025, I came into 2026 vowing I would read more books. Almost 1.5 months in, I am pleased to report my desire to read is actually existent. This… 

Hey, remember last week when I wrote a ridiculously short and rather pointless blog post that I won’t bother linking to here because there’s no point in actually reading it? (Unless you’re super curious now,… 

On this fine Tuesday, I would like to propose a new rule of the universe. The Law of Uncooperative Time: Time will, without fail, pass more quickly when you are just trying to get something… 

“If you put it online, it’s there forever.” The warning of my formative years. Back when having a MySpace profile was all the rage and, if you wanted to ensure your scum-of-the-Earth ex-boyfriend who’d broken… 

To be clear, I’ve won exactly 2 games of Chess in my life, both in my seventh grade prealgebra class playing against people who’d never played before. I also sank someone’s battle ship later that…