There are moments in life when theory meets reality in a way that makes you pause and think, well, that escalated quickly. Case in point. An absolutely surreal (and deeply tragic) news story out of Argentina, where a woman taking a flying lesson suddenly found herself alone midair […]
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 […]
There’s a theory floating around the internet lately that’s called the “5-Year Stranger Theory” which basically suggests that a large portion of the people in your life right now won’t be in it five years from now. I wrote about this ladt week. And it’s still on my […]
We love choices. We say we want options. More flavors, more shows, more ways to customize our coffee and our lives until everything feels uniquely ours. And yet something feels off. Because the choices don’t feel as expansive as they used to. They feel curated. Narrowed. Pre-decided in […]
Yesterday, I complained (eloquently, I think) about needing an app to breathe in public. But let’s go deeper because it’s not just that we’re tethered to our phones. It’s that the phone is quietly making decisions for us. What we buy. What we watch. What we read. Even […]
There was a time—not ancient history, just pre-everything-needs-a-passwordwhen you could simply exist in public without downloading something first. I remember writing about this years ago after watching a Sesame Street skit that cheerfully predicted a world of apps for everything. It felt cute. Playful. Slightly absurd. Well. Joke’s […]
Every night we perform a quiet act of faith. We slide under the covers, dim the lights, close our eyes and surrender. No guarantees. No signed contract with tomorrow. Just a soft, unspoken hope that morning will find us again. And yet we set an alarm. It’s almost […]
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 […]
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