She scours and scours searching for what stories have yet to be told, what places can she explore, what borders she can cross, what imaginations she can unfold…

I have this measurement of whether or not I should buy something - am I crazy about it or would I regret not getting it? Well, consider me regretful because I can’t forget about this Coach Parker Top Handle bag enough to write about it. However brief this blog post is, it is still a sign of the missed connection between this bag and me. Others may use “missed connection” to talk about love at first sight with a person that passed them by; I fell just as hard for this bag on sight.

It was in Marshalls where I saw these two Brahmin bags. I had known about Brahmin for years but never seen a bag at such an affordable price before me. More importantly, I had not seen any that weren’t the signature crocodile style, which I am not entirely fond of. It may not be luxury to some, but a stylish, high quality bag priced well under the cost of a major dental procedure is plenty luxurious to me.

The moment I started to read Pinterest's 2026 Q2 earnings conference call transcript, I gained firsthand confirmation of everything that I'd known and complained about for the last 3 years or longer. Pinterest has been using what users search and save to train AI to give us more AI curated content. The AI is helping advertisers show us more Ads to try to sell users more. I was discouraged by what it proved: Pinterest is too far gone and too big to change. I thought surely nothing I have to say will make any modicum of a difference. Their infrastructure is completely tangled up in AI and advertising money. There is no way Pinterest would even blink at thoughts of change now.

Then I read the comments on another Pinterest post and was emboldened by the truth…