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Sunday, May 10, 2026 · Vincennes
The Curious Case of Competing Truths: Can We All Be Right At Once?
In an age defined by opposing viewpoints, Splurge Sullivan dives into the possibility that multiple “truths” can coexist, and the potential value of embracing this complexity.
Skip the State Capital—Go to the Courthouse Town Instead
Every state has one: a small town built around a historic courthouse that time mostly forgot. Here's why your next weekend should happen there.
Sunday, May 10, 2026
The Farmer's Carry Will Fix Your Posture Better Than Any $300 Gadget
You're probably paying money to fix problems that this 30-second walk would solve for free. Here's why your hands are your best postural correction tool.
Sunday, May 10, 2026
Stop Boiling Your Cast Iron Skillet Like a Barbarian
Your cast iron seasoning isn't some delicate thing that washes away. Here's what actually happens when you care for it right—and why your grandmother's pan still works better than your new one.
Sunday, May 10, 2026
How to Cut Perfect Dovetails with a $15 Handsaw (No Fancy Jigs Required)
Dovetails intimidate beginners because woodworkers love mystifying them. Here's how to cut strong, beautiful joints with basic tools and steady hands.
Sunday, May 10, 2026
Fall Stripers Are Aggressive—And They'll Hit Your Mistakes
Autumn has striped bass in a feeding frenzy, and they're so committed to eating that they'll nail lures you didn't even mean to cast. Here's how to cash in before winter shuts them down.
Sunday, May 10, 2026
The Viral Concert Moment Everyone's Getting Wrong (And Why I'm Obsessed)
That TikTok of the fan rushing the stage during last week's arena show? It wasn't a security failure. It was art. And I'm tired of pretending we didn't all feel it.
Sunday, May 10, 2026
The Narrows at Zion—Where You Wade Through Scripture
Most people drive past the actual best hike in Zion National Park without realizing it's a walk up a river between 2,000-foot canyon walls that'll make you feel like you're inside the earth's ribcage.
Sunday, May 10, 2026
The Brutally Honest Truth About "Shogun" That Nobody Wants to Hear
FX's samurai masterpiece is stunning, expensive, and almost unwatchably boring for 40 minutes at a time—and I'm not apologizing for saying it.
Sunday, May 10, 2026
The Strange Custody Battle Between a Man and His Own Skeleton
A Kansas man's attempt to be buried with his wife's remains led to a courtroom dispute that probably never should have happened, but absolutely did.
Sunday, May 10, 2026
The Great Skincare Obsession Has Become Unhinged, and I'm Here for the Chaos
We've gone from "moisturize daily" to grown adults spending $400 on fermented snail mucus serums. The skincare industrial complex has officially won, and frankly, it's hilarious.
Sunday, May 10, 2026
Stop Asking Dancers to Smile and Start Asking Why We Deserve Serious Art
Contemporary dance is finally allowed to be uncomfortable, challenging, and human—but audiences keep begging it to perform happiness instead of truth.
Sunday, May 10, 2026
The Fed Just Bet Everything on a Soft Landing That Nobody Believes Anymore
Jerome Powell lowered rates yesterday despite inflation still running hot. The stock market loved it. The bond market didn't. Somebody's about to be very wrong.
Sunday, May 10, 2026
The Dangerous Comfort of the Unfinished Sentence
We've turned incompleteness into a virtue, but Kafka's most unsettling insight was about what happens when we stop questioning the gaps in our understanding.
Sunday, May 10, 2026
Why We Keep Memorizing the Wrong Poems (And How to Fix It)
Your high school English teacher made you memorize "The Road Not Taken," but Robert Frost spent the last decades of his life furious that everyone missed the joke. Here's what we've all been getting wrong.
Sunday, May 10, 2026
The Affirmation That Actually Works Starts with Saying No
Most affirmations fail because they ask you to believe something you don't. Here's the one that changes everything—and why it works backward from what you'd expect.
Sunday, May 10, 2026
The Brutalist Is Three Hours of Watching Someone Else's Fever Dream, and I'm Mad I Loved It
Brady Corbet's maximalist nightmare should be insufferable. Instead, it's the most alive thing cinema has been in years — and yes, you'll need a neck pillow.
Sunday, May 10, 2026
The "Quiet Luxury" Con Is Finally Showing Its Seams
Beige minimalism promised sophistication and restraint. Instead, it delivered the most aggressively boring flex in fashion history—and we're all pretending not to notice it's collapsing.
Sunday, May 10, 2026
Stop Pretending Dance Recitals Are Important Art
Your cousin's hip-hop showcase is not the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and we all need to stop lying about it.
Sunday, May 10, 2026
My Sister Won't Stop Recruiting Me Into Her MLM, and I'm Losing My Mind
A family business opportunity sounds great until it's your sister's downline, and family dinners turn into sales pitches. Here's how to shut it down without nuking the relationship.
Sunday, May 10, 2026
My Kid Won't Stop Gaming and Neither Will I—Who's the Real Problem Here?
A dad realizes his anger at his son's screen time is really about the mirror it's holding up to his own habits—and what he decides to do about it changes everything.
Sunday, May 10, 2026
I Quit My Job to Start a Business and Now I'm Hemorrhaging Money—Do I Go Back?
Six months into your passion project, the savings account is screaming, your partner won't look at you, and you're Googling "jobs that hire people with gaps." Here's what you actually need to decide right now.
Sunday, May 10, 2026
My Kid's School Wants Me to Stop Working. I Need the Paycheck. Now What?
When schools expect parents to volunteer constantly, they're basically asking working parents to choose between their job and their kid's education. That math doesn't add up.
Sunday, May 10, 2026
I Make Good Money But I'm Still Broke — and I Know It's My Fault
A reader earning six figures confesses to spending like they make seven. We do the math on why having more money doesn't fix a broken spending habit.
Sunday, May 10, 2026
I Panic-Sold My Entire Portfolio. Now What?
One reader's stock market meltdown cost them six figures. Here's what actually happens when you let fear make your financial decisions, and how to unfold this mess.
Sunday, May 10, 2026
My Kid's Teacher Thinks I'm Lazy, But I'm Just Broke—And I'm Tired of Pretending Otherwise
A frustrated parent confronts the gap between what schools expect and what families can actually afford—and Mama Mae has had enough of the judgment.
Sunday, May 10, 2026
My Partner Won't Stop Comparing Me to His Ex—And I'm Losing It
He says it's just "objective observation," but hearing "My ex always remembered my coffee order" one more time might actually end us. How do I make him stop without sounding jealous and crazy?
Sunday, May 10, 2026
The Dangerous Comfort of the Unexamined Quote
We share inspiring quotes constantly—but most of us have never actually read the books they came from. That gap between the quote and its context is where meaning dies.
Sunday, May 10, 2026
The Fed Just Admitted It Has No Idea When Inflation Stops, and Markets Called Them on It
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell opened the door to rate cuts this week, and investors immediately punished him for the contradiction. Here's what actually happened behind the closed door.
Sunday, May 10, 2026
Why We Keep Misreading Emily Dickinson—And What Her Dashes Actually Mean
Those scattered punctuation marks aren't poetic affectation. They're Dickinson's secret language for slowing you down, and once you hear it, you can't unhear it.
Sunday, May 10, 2026