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.
If your pet could talk, what would be the first thing it says? I sometimes wonder what my dogs would say if they could talk. Of course, I would love to believe their first words would be, “I love you.” But let’s be psychologically honest here. These are […]
I love a news story that makes me stop and think, Wait. What? Recently, someone in Washington called 911 because they heard loud banging in their house and thought they had a burglar. Reasonable. Except when the police arrived, the burglar turned out to be a bobcat sitting […]
There are certain things I have always believed should be hot. Coffee. Tea. Soup. And apparently, lava. New research involving nearly a million people in the UK found that drinking beverages at a “very hot” temperature was associated with more than three times the risk of esophageal squamous […]
What are your favorite 5 apps on your phone? Is there such a thing as a favorite app? I suppose there is a difference between favorite and frequently used. Gmail and X are probably my most frequently used apps. Which doesn’t necessarily mean I love them. It may […]
A Picasso print was stolen years ago. Gone. Vanished. Goodbye, Picasso. Then suddenly, it reappeared hanging in a vacant Milwaukee apartment. Which raises several important psychological questions. First: Who hangs stolen art in an empty apartment? Second: How does a Picasso casually re-enter the storyline years later like […]
Apparently a woman went on a blind date and brought 23 family members with her. Twenty-three. At that point, it’s not a blind date. It’s a family reunion with one unsuspecting donor. The bill was $3,100. The man declined to pay and, honestly, I have questions but mostly […]
What’s the most annoying trope in books or movies? Gosh. I don’t know. There are so many contenders. But lately, after binge-watching an entirely unreasonable amount of BritBox, I’m noticing a pattern. The female detective who is slightly off. Odd. Socially uncomfortable. Probably lives alone. Sees patterns no […]
What’s something you do completely differently from how you were raised? I’ve been thinking about passion. What are we actually passionate about? A career? A person? A hobby? A cause? And then I started thinking about something else. What have I done that is completely different from how […]
There is a Talking Heads song that has been living rent-free in my head lately. Once in a Lifetime. You know the one. You may not know the lyrics, but you know the feeling. You wake up one day and look around at your life and think: How […]
I’ve been thinking about passion. Not the Instagram version of passion. Not “Do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life!” because honestly, whoever invented that sentence has never had a mortgage. I mean actual passion. That strange, consuming feeling when something or someone […]
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