I love to travel, try new foods, ingest caffeine, and watch political news coverage. A psychologist by training trying to bring a little common sense to it all.
I came across a LinkedIn post the other day that said, “Keep the gap. It’s the engine.” And I had two immediate reactions 1. Wow. That’s beautiful.2. Also, have you met my gap? Because it is not an engine. It is a full-blown emotional support crisis. The idea […]
It took 15 seconds. Fifteen. Seconds. For a 2-year-old named Cooper to go from “standing near a claw machine” to fully inside the claw machine, living his best life like a tiny, giggling prize no one could win. Toddlers are chaos in human form If you’ve ever spent […]
So imagine my surprise and borderline suspicion when an old blog post of mine about exit interviews and the general futility of “constructive feedback” suddenly starts trending like it just dropped yesterday with a Beyoncé album. Exit interviews.Of all things. Not love. Not purpose. Not “how to find […]
I saw a post floating around Facebook that stopped me mid-scroll (which, in 2026, is the emotional equivalent of a spiritual awakening):“You can be the prettiest rose ever, but if they like lilies, it won’t matter.” Rude. Accurate. Personally offensive. Because somewhere between being raised to believe we […]
There are two types of people in this world 1. People who think their pets sleep all night.2. People who have met their pets. I, unfortunately, am now the third type. Yhe one who strongly suspects a coordinated, multi-species underground operation is unfolding the moment I turn off […]
There are many ways to know society is teetering on the edge. Such as people clapping when planes land (well, Puerto Ricans have always done that), group chats named “Final_Final_v3,” and now a rogue mushroom staging what can only be described as a slow-motion botanical coup. Enter the […]
There are crimes of desperation.There are crimes of opportunity.And then there are crimes that make you pause, tilt your head, and whisper that you kind of kind of get it. Case in point somewhere between Italy and Poland, 12 tons of Kit Kats were stolen. Vanished. Liberated. Rehomed. […]
Yesterday, the New York City Department of Transportation repaired 7,601 potholes in 14 hours. Fourteen. Hours. That is not a statistic. That is a cry for help. I have questions. So many questions. For instance, how are there 7,601 potholes just waiting? Are they breeding at night? Is […]
What makes you laugh? I’ve been thinking a lot about what makes me laugh lately. And, not the polite, socially acceptable chuckle you deploy in meetings when someone says “let’s circle back,” but the real laugh. The slightly unhinged, slightly inappropriate, possibly-should-be-checked-by-a-professional kind of laugh. The kind that […]
I would like it noted for the record, for the courts, for future archaeologists sifting through the digital ashes, that I have been worried about Skynet for years. This is not new anxiety. This is vintage, well-aged, oak-barrel-stored concern. So when a new research paper casually suggests that […]
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