There are signs in life that feel metaphorical such as “yield,” “merge,” “detour ahead” and then there are signs that are so oddly specific they feel like a joke the universe is playing on us. Case in point. There is a very real sign at Boulders Beach in […]
Jot down the first thing that comes to your mind. My birthday is coming up. Which I have subtly, delicately, with the grace of a foghorn reminded certain people about. Not because I need a parade. (Although, let’s be clear, I would not decline a parade.) But because […]
“It takes two years to learn to speak and sixty to learn to keep quiet.” Ah, Ernest. Sir. You really woke up and chose violence with that one. Because here I am, not yet sixty (thank you very much), and already deeply aware that the second half of […]
Somewhere in upstate New York, Syracuse University looked at its course catalog (apparently the academic equivalent of a hoarder’s attic) and said, with admirable calm, “This no longer sparks enrollment.” Eighty-four majors. Gone. Or paused. Or gently escorted to the existential waiting room where discontinued things go to […]
Apparently, the youths (yes, I said it, the youths) have discovered something groundbreaking. Revolutionary. Positively cutting-edge. It’s called Nonnamaxxing. Which, for those of us who have been busy answering emails while brushing our teeth and silently spiraling, is the idea that if you live like an Italian grandmother […]
Somewhere in the friendly skies, two pilots decided that what air traffic control really needed amid the symphony of call signs, altitudes, and headings was a little feline flair. “Meow, meow.” Yes. Not turbulence. Not interference. Not a glitch in the matrix. Just grown adults, entrusted with a […]
Somewhere in Warsaw, a humanoid robot recently chased a group of wild boars out of a neighborhood, escorted them politely into the woods, and then because subtlety is dead, waved goodbye. Waved. Goodbye. And the internet, naturally, let the video go viral thinking on part that it was […]
There was a time not that long ago when I considered myself a stealth operator in the wild terrain of office hallways. Baseball cap pulled low, eyes fixed forward, stride purposeful. If there were an Olympic sport for avoiding small talk, I would have been on the podium, […]
I recently stumbled across a statistic on LinkedIn, which, as we all know, is where facts go to speak in motivational quotes, claiming that 1 out of 2 people faces a barrier to hygiene in public restrooms. Now, I did not fact-check this. Just letting you know. But […]
I have reached a point in life where I trust dogs more than people. And not in a cute, Instagram-caption kind of way. I mean in a deeply scientific, peer-reviewed, my nervous system has run the data kind of way. People are flexible. We smile when we don’t […]
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