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What's On Your Mind?
The relentless cold finally broke here in New York, and the past few days have been nothing short of glorious. As much as I don't love winter, I do love the visceral, almost primal appreciation I have for warmth and sunshine after weeks and weeks of deep freeze
Aren't You Tired of This Yet?
A few years ago, there was a television commercial I couldn't stop thinking about. Maybe you saw it on one of the various streaming services we all pay for. Which totally makes sense, because of course I want to pay someone to show me advertisements someone else paid
The Youthquake Has Become a Youth Sinkhole
When I was in graduate school, I worked for a few years as a research assistant on a project led, in part, by my advisor. My advisor didn't care for me, in fact spent the entirety of our six years working together mispronouncing my name or failing to
Hit Them Where It Hurts
Last week marked the beginning of one of the big consolidated social media trials that Meta, Snapchat, and TikTok will face this year. Some of you may remember me writing about one of these lawsuits last year, the one for which I was very nearly deposed. If you've
Bring Back Joy
Did you watch the Bad Bunny halftime show on Sunday evening? Please tell me you did. If you didn't, you missed out on one of the most joyful, life-affirming, and surprisingly intimate performances in recent memory. I've watched it multiple times now and have seen countless
The Little Things
From around 9:15 this morning until about 2:15 in the afternoon, I sat in a small and very warm windowless room with no airflow. There were four other people in the room, and none of us had expected to be there for quite that long, so some of
Little Fish Eat Big Fish
This weekend, you may have learned that social media and relentless footage of atrocities do not, in fact, desensitize us. We are all—those of us with moral and ethical fibers left in our bodies, I mean—still capable of feeling many, many feelings when we witness a human being
Please Tell Me if This is a Bad Idea
Last night when I went to bed, I lay there for a while feeling disheartened and unable to sleep. What are you thinking? I kept asking myself. Everything is bad. Beyond bad. Like we're at the brink of civil war AND war with our beloved allies. Not only
What if Distress is a Feature, Not a Bug?
Have you ever had an allergic reaction to stress? It's not fun. Last week, after I got some unexpected news that threw my life into upheaval (again), the stress of the situation triggered a histamine reaction. My face—in particular my cheeks and eyelids—completely swelled up and
You Are All Stars Now
If you were online in December, there's a good chance you saw a video of a grandmother accidentally lighting her birthday cake on fire. Or maybe you saw one of the other two videos, filmed by other family members from different points of view. Regardless of the POV
