There are some things in life that I know I will never do. Run a marathon, for example. I have great respect for people who voluntarily run 26.2 miles. I also have great respect for people who voluntarily do other things I find incomprehensible, like camping, hiking uphill […]
This morning, while riding the train, I found myself surrounded by people shopping on Amazon. Not talking. Not reading. Not scrolling aimlessly through Instagram pretending to be interested in someone’s vacation. Shopping. Amazon Prime Deal Days had apparently turned the train into a mobile shopping mall. I started […]
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 […]
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 […]
I recently sat through a quick cybersecurity training at work.You know the kind that you generally click through about how you shouldn’t reuse passwords or wire money to strangers named “Steve from Finance.” Except this one hit differently. Because this time the message was: “Even if it sounds […]
For the past three weeks, I have been slowly, methodically erased. Not existentially (though give it time), but technologically. First, my laptop camera at home blinked out. No warning. No flicker of rebellion. Just gone. A quiet resignation from the land of Zoom squares and forced eye contact. […]
There is a purpose for everyone you meet. I know. It sounds like something you’d find cross-stitched on a pillow next to a suspiciously calm fern. Stay with me. Because some people do not enter your life gently. They arrive like a pop quiz you didn’t study for, […]
I saw a post on LinkedIn the other day that stopped me mid-scroll. It began with a toungue-in-cheek dramatic declaration “I spilled my coffee this morning.” Naturally, I leaned in. Because if the internet has taught us anything, it is that no minor inconvenience goes unanalyzed or made […]
I finished watching Apple Cider Vinegar, another one of those “based on a true story” streaming series that leaves you staring at the screen afterward, not because you’re moved but because you’re unsettled. Not haunted. Not inspired.Unsettled. Because at its core, the show isn’t really about wellness influencers […]
The other day a colleague was mourning a friendship. Not dramatically. Not throw-things-into-the-sea mourning. Just that quiet, disoriented grief that happens when someone who used to live in your daily orbit becomes… peripheral. So naturally, like the emotionally well-adjusted person I am, I pulled up the theme song […]
