I love to travel, try new foods, ingest caffeine, and watch political news coverage. A psychologist by training trying to bring a little common sense to it all.
So, apparently, Spain now has venomous sea slugs washing up on its shores. Yup, you read that right. Venomous. Sea. Slugs. As if jellyfish and sharks weren’t already enough for my imagination to run wild with when I dip a toe in the ocean. Now I’ve got to […]
Carly Simon once sang about dreams turning into “clouds in my coffee.” I feel that deep in my bones. Because let’s be real: life is full of those “this was supposed to be great, but ehhh” moments. I’ve had the big-ticket letdowns including the bucket-list trip that somehow […]
Well, here we go again. Another day, another radioactive animal warning. The FDA has now cautioned us not to eat certain Great Value frozen shrimp at Walmart due to possible contamination with a radioactive isotope. Yes, radioactive shrimp. Not just spoiled, not just salmonella-laced, not just “smells like […]
You know life has gotten stressful when even your intestines can’t tell if they’re angry or just moody. Enter the alphabet soup of the gut: IBD vs. IBS. To the untrained ear, they sound like two competing indie bands at Coachella. To your body, they’re worlds apart; but […]
When I first heard about The Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, I thought it was a movie pitch. You know, something sandwiched between Pacific Rim and Kung Fu Panda. But nope, it was real. Over three days, robots from 16 countries competed in running, kickboxing, and soccer. Some […]
So apparently, the Cambridge Dictionary has officially added the word skibidi. Yes, you read that right. Skibidi. A term I first heard from my son’s classmates, where I assumed it was just the latest fidget-spinner-type craze or some new plastic gizmo that would end up under my couch […]
Here’s the thing about waiting for the sunrise or the sunset: you can devote your whole self to it by plopping down in a chair, drink in hand, eyes locked on the horizon like it’s the world’s slowest Broadway show and somehow, you’ll still miss it. The universe […]
Sometimes life feels like crossing a desert with no map. The air shimmers, the horizon wavers, and in our longing, we convince ourselves that the blur ahead is an oasis of shade, water, relief. But more often than not, when we finally stumble closer, we realize it was […]
There’s this old biblical phrase I stumbled on again: “never blew an uncertain trumpet.” Basically, it means someone always gave a clear call, never muddled or half-hearted. No room for confusion. Which got me thinking about how rare is that these days? Most of life seems to be […]
The other night, I was swimming alone in a beautifully lit pool, the water glowing turquoise in the dark. You’d think I’d be lost in the moment; zen, tranquil, Instagram-worthy. Instead, my mind wandered straight into Archive 81 territory, because apparently I can’t even do a peaceful backstroke […]
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