Big embarrassing moments are usually uncommon.  Small, unnecessary ones? Those happen daily. Just tiny, completely normal situations that, for some reason, feel like public humiliation. The kind that lasts for a sum total of 3 seconds, but then replays in your head at 1:13 am.  I can't explain why they're so uncomfortable...they just are. Here are a few that should not be embarrassing- but somehow are. Running after the bus   Running for the bus is a completely reasonable th

How will you feel when you hear a young teen telling you that he enjoys watching documentaries? Strange, isn’t it? With resources being so freely available today, documentaries are just one of the many ways to learn something new, in fact, one may say using an AI Large Language Model allows people to learn  faster than watching documentaries.  I remember when I was in high school, I used to laugh at my friend for watching documentaries while the majority of us were watching M

“By the pricking of my thumbs,  Something wicked this way comes.”  — Macbeth, Act 4 Scene 1 Image: Macbeth, Act 4 Scene 1. 2015 Square Talk in association with Apollo Arts Production of Macbeth, directed by Nicolas Walker. When those words were first uttered on the Elizabethan stage, there were no amplifiers trembling in their wake, no distortion thickening the atmosphere, no drums rolling like distant artillery. There was only a bare wooden platform, a restless crowd, and a