It has been a very stormy summer. I just got yet another weather alert telling me it may start raining shortly, which feels less like a forecast at this point and more like a personal threat. We’ve had the rain. The thunder. The lightning. A giant tree in […]
There is something so profoundly New York about paying $12 for a croissant and feeling special only to potentially discover that your fancy French pastry may have arrived in a Costco box. A NYC content creator recently went viral after filming what appeared to be Costco croissant boxes […]
I’ve noticed something at train stations. Nobody uses the handrails anymore. Up the stairs. Down the stairs. Everyone is gripping their phones, their coffee, their bags, their existential dread. But the handrail? Absolutely not. I assume this is a lingering COVID-era thing. We spent two years being told […]
What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever received? One of the best pieces of advice I’ve ever received is deceptively simple. Not everything is urgent. It sounds obvious, almost dismissible, until you realize how much of life is designed to feel urgent. Emails marked “ASAP.” Texts that […]
I’m writing this from my bathtub. Not metaphorically. Not “I need a moment to myself” bathtub. An actual, porcelain, slightly-too-cold, mid-thunderstorm, power-is-out, phone-at-17% kind of bathtub. The lights snapped off about twenty minutes ago. One dramatic flicker, then darkness like a stage cue. Outside, the sky is doing […]
There’s a Dostoevsky-adjacent line that has followed me from job to job, like a slightly unhinged little companion: “they insulted me in seventy lines and only the spelling mistakes bothered me.” It shouldn’t resonate as much as it does. And yet. Because here’s the thing about being a […]
Some people will never ask you for your side of the story. Not because they forgot. Not because they’re too busy. But because the version they already heard? It fits. It’s convenient. It confirms whatever quiet narrative they’ve been building about you in their head. Why complicate a […]
There was a time when I believed my umbrella choices said something noble about me. I was a small umbrella person. The kind who tucks neatly into a bag, emerges politely, and takes up as little space in the world as possible. Compact. Considerate. Mildly damp, but morally […]
There’s a particular kind of person who walks into a room and immediately assumes it’s a stage. Not a room. Not a shared space. A stage. They talk the loudest, interrupt the fastest, and laugh the hardest, usually at their own comments. There’s a kind of performance happening. […]
Somewhere between scanning QR codes and letting algorithms pick our personalities, something else quietly shifted. Our relationships started to feel lighter. Faster. More replaceable. Enter the overlap I can’t stop thinking about the “5-Year Stranger Theory” (which I write about yesterday) meets the digital leash. Because yes, relationships […]
