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 went to the movie theater for the first time in a year. This already being a heroic act. Not quite slaying a cyclops, but emotionally adjacent. I’d been avoiding it, irrationally intimidated by the runtime. Three hours? I barely commit to a group text. And yet there […]
I recently learned there’s a name for something I’ve been doing for about twenty years. Whimsy-maxxing! Of course there is. Leave it to the internet to take a perfectly organic personality trait and give it a hashtag. Apparently, whimsy-maxxing is a decor trend where you intentionally add joy […]
There are moments in life that reveal who we really are. Big moments. Defining moments. Character-building moments. And then there are cockroach-on-your-shoulder-during-a-live-report moments. I recently watched Rachel Menitoff ( a KTLA news reporter) do the unthinkable. A cockroach landed on her mid-report and she just kept going. No […]
Apparently, the universe has a sweet tooth. Astronomers just found a sugar— called erythrulose floating around in the vast, cold, existential void we call the interstellar medium. Yes, space. The same place that gave us black holes, cosmic loneliness, and the occasional existential crisis now casually sprinkles in […]
What’s one habit that has improved your life the most? About 20 years ago, I picked up a habit that turned out to be one of the best decisions I ever made. I started exercising every day. Not casually. Not aspirationally. Religiously. Sometimes once a day. Often twice. […]
Is a little chaos actually good for us? I have a theory. A little chaos is good for us. Not the kind of chaos that destroys everything. Not the “hide your passport and call your lawyer” kind of chaos. I mean the kind that throws your back against […]
What villain actually had a good point? I’ve been thinking lately about villains. A lot. I’ve been binging on true documentaries as if they were dumplings (which I cannot get enough of, seriously). Here’s the thing. Not the cartoonish, twirl-the-mustache, burn-it-all-down types. Not the ones who are evil […]
We’ve been told to “eat clean.” More fresh produce. More leafy greens. More berries. More herbs. Farmers’ markets. Pre-washed salads. That virtuous little drizzle of olive oil that says, I have my life together. And yet this week, nearly 2,000 people across the U.S. got sick from a […]
There’s something about those eerie small-town shows, such as Haven or even the newer Widows Bay, which have the foggy coastlines, the tight-lipped locals, the sense that everyone knows something except you, that gets under the skin in a way jump scares never could. Because they’re not really […]
Apparently, 1 in 5 Americans believes they’re psychic. One in five. Which means statistically, at least a few people reading this already “knew” I was going to write this. Congratulations. Please use your powers responsibly. I’ll admit it, I’ve felt it too. That eerie, low-grade hum in your […]
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