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.
OK. Here’s my thing today.This is not my lane.This was my spouse’s lane.Three years ago, if you had asked me about extraterrestrials, I would have handed the microphone to EsoterX and gone back to writing about trauma, attachment, and why people overshare in elevators. But lately? The universe […]
I’ve been watching How to Get to Heaven from Belfast, and it has that very particular flavor of humor I can only describe as Catholic-adjacent existential mischief. You know the tone.Someone dies.Someone lies.Someone pours tea.Someone says something so inappropriate you laugh and then immediately wonder if you’re going […]
The other day a colleague was mourning a friendship. Not dramatically. Not throw-things-into-the-sea mourning. Just that quiet, disoriented grief that happens when someone who used to live in your daily orbit becomes… peripheral. So naturally, like the emotionally well-adjusted person I am, I pulled up the theme song […]
Are there any activities or hobbies you’ve outgrown or lost interest in over time? I used to be a jump-rope person. Not casually. Not “oh look, there’s a rope.” I was a bring-a-jump-rope-on-a-cross-country-road-trip person. There are photos of me at rest stops somewhere in the middle of America, […]
I was scrolling through one of my streaming services which one, I cannot say. Not because it’s classified, but because at this point they all blur together into one endless buffet of content I don’t have time to consume. And then I saw the title: If I Had […]
People love to talk about luck as if it’s a rogue wave. A meteor. A scratch-off ticket blessed by the gods of convenience stores. You either have it or you don’t. Elaine Benes has it. George Costanza absolutely does not. And Jerry? Jerry is even Steven. Which honestly […]
We’ve known for a while that toddlers are tiny linguistic geniuses. They don’t need flashcards. They don’t need formal lessons. They just listen. They overhear conversations while stacking blocks or licking windows, and suddenly they’re using words you don’t even remember teaching them. It’s casual. It’s sneaky. It’s […]
I binged Love & Death on Netflix on a cold weekend. Although, to be fair, every weekend has felt cold lately in all forms including emotionally, existentially, meteorologically. Pick one. The series, based on true events, opens on something deeply familiar. Two churchgoing couples, suburban Texas, kids, casseroles, […]
Most of life is beige. Not offensively beige. Not tragic. Just bland. Neutral. The emotional equivalent of unseasoned chicken and overhead lighting. We like to pretend life is made up of big moments such as the highlights, the milestones, the Instagrammable stuff. But the truth is, most of […]
There’s a hotel trend that started quietly a few years ago, like all bad ideas do. At first it showed up as a “modern design choice.” Then a “European vibe.” Then suddenly you’re standing in a hotel room brushing your teeth while your travel companion makes direct eye […]
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