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.
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 […]
On February 5, Elon Musk, the guy behind Tesla, SpaceX, and X (formerly Twitter, formerly a bird, formerly our collective sanity), posted a short message on his own platform: Whoever said “money can’t buy happiness” really knew what they were talking about. Then he added a sad emoji. […]
Have you recently uttered the phrase “Well, I didn’t have that on my bingo card.” Same. When I was a kid, I had this wheel bingo game I used to play with my mom. You’d spin the wheel, a number would land, and we’d mark our cards with […]
The Super Bowl between the Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots was not about flash. It was not about swagger. It was not about perfectly coiffed quarterbacks or cinematic slow-motion spirals. It was about defense. Which, frankly, feels psychologically correct for the moment we’re in. I was […]
I caught yet another documentary the other night. It wasn’t planned. These things never are. You start folding laundry, or answering emails, or trying to quiet your brain, and suddenly you’re forty minutes into something that changes the temperature of the room. This one did. It was Kidnapped: […]
I’ve been on a documentary kick lately. You know the phase. You convince yourself you’re being educational, cultured, and deeply thoughtful, when really you’re just binge-watching other people’s lives while eating snacks. So naturally, I tried the Victoria Beckham three-part series on Netflix. And listen. I wanted to […]
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