I love to travel, try new foods (both simple and "exotic"), ingest caffeine, and watch political news coverage. Im a big pop culture junkie who isnt afraid to say she loves "In Touch" Magazine! A social marketing expert and psychologist by training who works in the public health field trying to bring a little common sense to it all.
All the world is my television and I like to provide commentary on it.
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For reasons that defy logic, caffeine, or the laws of neural firing, R.E.M.’s “What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?” has set up camp in my brain. Rent-free. No deposit, no lease, just living there playing at 3 a.m., during Zoom meetings, and while I’m feeding the dogs. Now, I haven’t […]
Tonight, I accidentally watched The A-Team movie. You know the one with explosions, plans that come together, people running around with implausible physics and even more implausible plot armor. I didn’t mean to watch it, but there I was, caught in its chaotic orbit, wondering how I got […]
I’ve been rather lucky in life (knock on wood before I jinx it) that I’ve had relatively good skin. No teenage acne saga, no adult “why now?” breakouts. My skin and I have had a stable, mutually respectful relationship. I feed it soap and play and seek with […]
I recently went to Costa Rica and unlike my usual adventures, I didn’t make a checklist. There were no must-see waterfalls, no zipline excursions, no meticulously scheduled day trips. In fact, I did something truly radical. I chilled. It wasn’t entirely my idea, of course. My son made […]
Apparently, the LSAT is back in vogue. In September 2024, about 18,811 people registered to take it. Fast forward one year, and 32,170 brave souls signed up in September 2025. That’s a jump big enough to make you wonder: are we entering a new Age of the Lawyer? […]
People love a good mystery especially one that involves vanishing ships, spooky fog, and compasses losing their moral and magnetic direction. The Bermuda Triangle usually hogs the spotlight, but little do most know there’s a Midwestern cousin lurking quietly up north: the Lake Michigan Triangle. Or as I […]
There are exactly 76 days left in the year. Seventy-six! That’s just enough time to panic, make a resolution to not panic, and then decide to do something new instead. I’ve been thinking. What if, rather than waiting for January 1st to reboot our lives, we start the […]
Sometimes you read a headline that makes you double-take, rub your eyes, and mutter, “No, surely this must be from The Onion.” But no. Real life, yet again, outdoes satire. A neurosurgeon. Yes, a brain surgeon has been arrested for what officials described as “an incredible lack of […]
Apparently, according to some clever neuroscientists (the kind who spend their days scanning brains instead of doom-scrolling LinkedIn), we humans average about 6,200 thoughts a day. That’s 6,200 neural costume changes. One minute you’re thinking about breakfast, the next about that email you forgot to send, and suddenly […]
You’ve heard the age-old debate: Is the glass half full or half empty? Cue the philosophical tug-of-war between optimism and pessimism. Psychologists have written treatises on it. Motivational speakers have made careers out of it. Team leaders have led icebreakers around it. And somewhere, an over-caffeinated intern once […]
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