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’ve been deep in an email purge lately. Archaeology of the digital kind. Dusting off threads, deleting ghosts, time-traveling one subject line at a time. Somewhere between “unsubscribe” and “why did I save this,” I stumbled on an email I sent to myself back in October 2022 with […]
I’m writing this from my bathtub. Not metaphorically. Not “I need a moment to myself” bathtub. An actual, porcelain, slightly-too-cold, mid-thunderstorm, power-is-out, phone-at-17% kind of bathtub. The lights snapped off about twenty minutes ago. One dramatic flicker, then darkness like a stage cue. Outside, the sky is doing […]
I have developed a slightly unhinged relationship with my Gmail inbox. What started as a casual “let me clean this up” spiraled into a full archaeological dig of my life. I didn’t just delete emails. I went backwards in time. August 2026 to April 2022. Thousands upon thousands […]
Sometimes, I think we’re going about hiring all wrong. Forget reference checks. Forget panel interviews. Forget those painfully curated resumes where everyone is “results-driven” and “passionate about synergy” (whatever that means this week). What we really need is a nice, quiet restaurant. Recently, I found myself at a […]
There’s a Dostoevsky-adjacent line that has followed me from job to job, like a slightly unhinged little companion: “they insulted me in seventy lines and only the spelling mistakes bothered me.” It shouldn’t resonate as much as it does. And yet. Because here’s the thing about being a […]
Some people will never ask you for your side of the story. Not because they forgot. Not because they’re too busy. But because the version they already heard? It fits. It’s convenient. It confirms whatever quiet narrative they’ve been building about you in their head. Why complicate a […]
There was a time when I believed my umbrella choices said something noble about me. I was a small umbrella person. The kind who tucks neatly into a bag, emerges politely, and takes up as little space in the world as possible. Compact. Considerate. Mildly damp, but morally […]
Just when you thought we had reached peak optimization along comes a banana. In South Korea, they’re now selling something called “haru hana banana.” A neatly packaged set of bananas arranged by ripeness. One ready today. One for tomorrow. One for later. A curated banana experience. A banana […]
There’s a particular kind of person who walks into a room and immediately assumes it’s a stage. Not a room. Not a shared space. A stage. They talk the loudest, interrupt the fastest, and laugh the hardest, usually at their own comments. There’s a kind of performance happening. […]
There’s a very specific phrase that should come with a psychological warning label. “Can we meet? It’ll only take a few seconds.” A few seconds. I would like to meet the alternate universe where this is true. I imagine it’s a magical place where meetings start on time, […]
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