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.
Somewhere in the friendly skies, two pilots decided that what air traffic control really needed amid the symphony of call signs, altitudes, and headings was a little feline flair. “Meow, meow.” Yes. Not turbulence. Not interference. Not a glitch in the matrix. Just grown adults, entrusted with a […]
Somewhere in Warsaw, a humanoid robot recently chased a group of wild boars out of a neighborhood, escorted them politely into the woods, and then because subtlety is dead, waved goodbye. Waved. Goodbye. And the internet, naturally, let the video go viral thinking on part that it was […]
There was a time not that long ago when I considered myself a stealth operator in the wild terrain of office hallways. Baseball cap pulled low, eyes fixed forward, stride purposeful. If there were an Olympic sport for avoiding small talk, I would have been on the podium, […]
I recently came across an odd news story about a man who called 911 after Red Lobster refused to refill his cheddar biscuits for the twelfth time. Twelfth. 12. A dozen biscuits deep into what I can only assume was a very committed personal journey, this man decided […]
I came across one of those glossy, aggressively inspirational quotes on social media the other day. You know the kind, floating over a sunset like it just closed a Series A round “Your mind will believe what you continuously tell it. So tell it you are smart, ambitious, […]
I recently stumbled across a statistic on LinkedIn, which, as we all know, is where facts go to speak in motivational quotes, claiming that 1 out of 2 people faces a barrier to hygiene in public restrooms. Now, I did not fact-check this. Just letting you know. But […]
I have reached a point in life where I trust dogs more than people. And not in a cute, Instagram-caption kind of way. I mean in a deeply scientific, peer-reviewed, my nervous system has run the data kind of way. People are flexible. We smile when we don’t […]
There should really be a punch card for grief by now. Ten losses and you get a free latte, a brief reprieve, a coupon for “emotional stability, one day only.” I would have redeemed mine several lifetimes ago. I have lost in all the traditional ways. The kinds […]
There are moments when the universe gently whispers, “See? Healing is possible.” And then there are moments when the universe hands you a fish from the Hudson River and says, “Trust me.” I do not trust it. Apparently, for the first time in 50 years, yes, half a […]
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 […]
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