Greetings from the Newborn Bubble
It’s all white noise and shushing and singing and rocking
Bridget Phetasy
Thursday
Monday
I am woman. Watch me push
In an effort to make everything inclusive, we are erasing women
Thursday
A state of virtual war
Most of us can’t tell the difference between high-quality video games and actual war
Sunday
#Wanderlusting
For someone with a gypsy soul, traveling is life
Monday
In the valley of the shadow of birth
Pregnancy revealed that I didn’t know anything.
Monday
It’s the Dawn of Omicron
I’m more afraid of how governments will weaponize a new variant than of the Omicron variant itself
Thursday
Pregnant at the end of the world
Seeing that new life on the ultrasound gave me hope for the future — not dread
Monday
America needs a 12-step program
As I hit my eighth sober birthday, I’m reflecting on exactly how much getting sober played a part in where I am today
Thursday
Worse than porn
I am a ‘media personality’ who occasionally opens my pie-hole on conservative media outlets. I’ve even appeared on Fox
Thursday
My country, right or left
Today, the Democratic version of patriotism seems to be an endless stream of resentment and self-loathing
Sunday
A matter of life and death
The space between a biopsy and the results
Wednesday
Playboy of the western world
We aren’t living in Hef’s cultured Playboy world anymore; if anything, we are living in Hustler’s nightmare
Tuesday
I hate vaccine passports — and you should too
Who believes that the government, Big Tech and corporations have our best interest at heart?
Tuesday
How to overcome the new fear of flying
With few exceptions, almost every single person tried to talk us out of going
Tuesday
Now make me rich
Are Bridget’s meme stonks going to the moon?
Saturday
Well, whatever, never mind
My coping mechanism has been the same for decades: laughter, cynicism and mocking irreverence
Tuesday
Letter from the online trenches
‘For four years I’ve woken up in my Brooklyn apartment, heart heavy with the knowledge that I am living under the tyrannical rule of a madman’
Monday
Letters from the politically homeless
Almost every Democrat voting for Trump has a story about being ostracized, shamed or losing a friend
Friday
Why I won’t vote
If Trump wins, I reckon America will burn. If Trump loses, America will burn
Sunday
Twitter has stolen my life
I’m a slave to my online persona. And she’s a slave to the algorithm, and we must feed the algorithm
