Author Archives: beecrouch

October 23, 2023 Every time I actually use the little water filter on my refrigerator (which is rare because I don’t have the patience for it when the water from the tap on my sink comes out so much faster) I make the same mistake. Due to my impatience and inability to stand still, IContinue reading “How to Lose a Guy in 21 Days”

Authored by Rebecca Crouch, PhD *Peer Review Pending* Abstract: In this experimental trial, a woman receives a series of text messages from a man who has been known to exhibit symptoms of very high audacity levels. The 35-year-old male experimental unit has not reached out to our female particpant in over 3 weeks and sheContinue reading “Anatomy of an Apology”

September 20,2023 While reading the Washington Post this weekend, I saw an article titled, “Washington is full of rats. These dogs are happy to help with that.” Okay, I’m listening…tell me more. The article was a ride. The first two lines were some of the best journalistic prose I’ve ever read. Listen to this: “TheContinue reading “The Things I Would Do To John Snow (not Jon Snow)”

September 15, 2023 I got invited to do a “hot sauce interview” at work. We filmed it today. When I read the invite for the initial discussion about the “hot sauce interview”, I shrugged and thought “must be a code name for something.” In my line of work, projects often have funny little names –Continue reading “Like Talking to a Brick Wall”

September 11, 2023 Sometimes I think my entire personality is just a series of quotes from Gilmore Girls. For the uninitiated, Gilmore Girls was a show that ran in the early 2000’s about a single mother and her daughter who are incredibly close. It’s set in quintessential New England (a fictional town called Stars HollowContinue reading “Founders’ Day Punch”

September 9, 2023 I’ve had the same bottle of perfume since 2011. It probably cost me $6.99 at Bath and Body Works or maybe even less if I got it on sale at Christmas time. It’s called “Country Chic” and I honestly couldn’t tell you what it actually smells like. It smells like Fall toContinue reading “Country Chic”

September 5, 2023 I saw a new hairdresser today. Or…new to me anyway. I think she’s been doing hair for a few years, but today she touched these locks of mine for the first time. Momentous, I know. Most women (and some men, I’m sure) can relate to the stress of trying out a newContinue reading “Crisis Hair”

December 18, 2022 Warning: Potential spoilers for Love is Blind Season 3 ahead. Ye be warned. One of the things that got me through the first few weeks of the pandemic was Netflix’s entrance into the “trashy reality tv” market. They kept releasing these ridiculous reality shows like The Circle, which was a social mediaContinue reading “Love is Not Blind”

December 13, 2022 I was driving down Loudoun County Parkway after work this afternoon trying to get to Walmart to buy scotch tape and hot sauce, as one does on a Tuesday. Am I the only one who buys scotch tape once a year to wrap three presents, only to store it in a drawerContinue reading “I’m the Asshole”