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.
There’s a glass of water on my nightstand right now. I will not drink it. I never drink it. And yet, every night, I place it there like I’m preparing for a very specific, very dramatic version of myself who might awaken at 3:17am, parched, reflective, possibly mid–existential […]
So apparently, the internet has decided that not only do parallel universes exist (fine, physics, do your thing), but there’s also another version of me out there controlling me. Like I’m some kind of emotional marionette. Or worse, a cosmic voodoo doll. Somewhere, allegedly, Alternate Me is sitting […]
Somewhere in 2017, over 100 employees boarded planes for what was marketed as a “corporate retreat.” You know the type. Growth. Bonding. Vision. Probably a PowerPoint with the word synergy in it. What they got instead? A fever dream. This is what supposedly happen but recall can certainly […]
In a brief and deeply questionable moment of maternal devotion (read: mania), I signed up for an online “marketplace” while searching for grain-free pizza for my son. Marketplace is doing a lot of work here. It’s a supermarket. Let’s not get fancy. Within approximately four minutes, I realized […]
There is a very specific kind of existential betrayal that happens sometime between 1:12 a.m. and “I definitely didn’t mean to fall asleep.” You’re watching a show.Something dependable. Structured. Predictable. Let’s say Law & Order. There are rules here: 1. There is a crime2. There are detectives3. There […]
I recently stumbled upon an article (and I use the term news generously these days) about adults using pacifiers to calm themselves down. Adult. Pacifiers. Pause. Now listen! I actually get the impulse. We are living in times that feel like a constant low-grade alarm bell. Everyone is […]
New York is on fire. Not the chaotic, sirens-in-the-distance kind. But the electric, collective heartbeat of a city that has waited. And waited. And waited. And now? The Knicks are champions. This wasn’t a story of dominance. It was a story of claw-backs. Of almosts. Of “are we […]
Steve Jobs famously said the only way to do great work is to love what you do. And listen, I both agree and would like to lovingly challenge Mr. Turtleneck. Because here’s the inconvenient truth. You don’t get a moral hall pass just because you’re not “in love” […]
Google, in its quiet algorithmic way, decided to ambush me today. “This day, years ago,” it said, like it wasn’t about to rearrange my entire nervous system before coffee. And there he was. My son, younger, mid-air, literally suspended in that impossible, physics-defying moment of childhood joy. His […]
I watched yet another true crime documentary this week, which is starting to feel less like a casual viewing choice and more like a personality trait. This time it was The Scream Murder: A True Teen Horror Story on Hulu. Three parts. And like so many of these […]
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