Category: Hex The System


  • A War Cry for the Hungry and the Honest We are watching billionaires tear this country apart, one donation, one loophole, one manipulative soundbite at a time. They’re buying influence like groceries while families like mine are either clipping coupons or calculating how to stretch what’s left in the pantry so our kids don’t go…

  • Disclaimer: I know this dynamic can go both ways. There are women who expect men to fix them, too. But as a woman who’s loved two fully grown men who behaved like children, I’m writing this from my side of the story—the one where empathy gets mistaken for servitude, and emotional labor gets repackaged as…

  • The Double Standard That Won’t Die There’s this weird double standard that slinks into conversations about infidelity like it’s wearing an invisibility cloak.When women cheat—emotionally or physically—it’s betrayal.Drama.A breach of trust.But when men do it emotionally? Suddenly, it’s “harmless,” “just venting,” or “not the same.” Let’s set the record straight:Emotional cheating is still cheating. Even…

  • Lists Upon Lists I’m a stay-at-home mom — though I rarely stay still. My body moves constantly, but my brain? It never rests. Every minute is accounted for. Every bag packed. Every meltdown prepped for. Every meal pre-thought, even if it ends in nuggets anyway. There’s no silence in my head. Only lists. 📋 But…

  • Milestone: Evie’s very first trip to the movie theater. She rated it a perfect 5/5 Z’s by sleeping through the entire thing, while I sat there realizing Greta Gerwig had somehow turned Barbie into a conversation about womanhood that actually mattered. The vibe On the surface, it’s all camp and color: dream houses, rollerblades, sequins.…

  • Running a small-town movie theater isn’t all red carpets and rom-com endings. It’s more like a low-budget indie flick: full of charm, chaos, and the occasional crisis when the soda machine hisses like a horror movie monster. 🎟️ Ticket Sales: The Big Plot Twist People think we rake it in from ticket sales. Plot twist:…

  • 🎬 Act Two of My Debt Saga If student loans were the villain who cornered me in Act One,credit cards were the shadow lurking in the background—waiting for their cue. To be fair—student loans did give me one gift:a shiny credit score. ✨Which meant that by the time I was old enough to know better,I…

  • The Pen and the Curse Let’s talk about what it means to financially sabotage a generation—because that’s exactly what student loans have done. And they did it with a smile, a “low” interest rate, and a signature from a teenager who barely knew how taxes worked. 🧾 At 18, I was handed a pen, a…

  • The Scene That Shouldn’t Exist Last Saturday, July 26, 2025, in a Traverse City Walmart, a man walked in and randomly stabbed eleven people. No motive, no warning—just terror erupting near the checkout area. He didn’t have a gun.But he did have a knife.And he did have the intent to harm. What stopped him?Not the…