I watched a LOT of serialized programs (can I still call it television if I didn’t watch a single episode live or over airwaves?) this year. Because I’m an actual nerd and tracking spreadsheets are my second-favorite love language besides Spotify playlists, and because there is SO MUCH TV to…

A Former Indoor Kid on the Joys of Yard Work — For the longest time, I thought I was an indoor kid. I would stay at my grandparents’ farm and instead of going out and getting muddy on the tractor with my grandfather like my little sister did, I would go to the library with my grandmother and check out an…

A digital strategist tries to be nice(r) to the garbage human I know lives inside me — Are you there, me? It’s me — you. Ope, you’re on mute! So, thanks so much for your time today! I know schedules are bananas right now, what with that whole Great Resignation thing happening all around us, but I’m so excited to share this strategy with you as we…

Guess What: Banning Abortion isn’t Going to Encourage People to Have Babies — There’s been a lot hand-wringing lately over America’s declining birth rate. Why don’t people want to have kids? Everyone seems to be asking as though they don’t know damn good and well how incredibly difficult it is to be pregnant, give birth, and raise a child in this country. We…

Why I May Never Get Off This Rock (And I’m Finally Okay With That) — I’ve been watching a lot of Star Trek lately, bingeing the original series and Next Generation during the pandemic, finally starting on Deep Space Nine and taking my time with it, and getting extremely into two of the newest series, Discovery and now Picard. The shows are as comforting to…

Towards a Theory of Toxic Masculinity and The White Lotus — I rarely give a damn about any white male characters on a given TV show (or in just about every other form of media I consume). Right now, the only white men currently on TV I truly give a damn about are: Joe Lo Truglio as Sgt. Charles Boyle on…

Last spring, when the pandemic was just getting started and we were all fifty or so years younger, I decided it was time to purge my skincare regimen of big conglomerate brands and focus on buying American, buying independent, buying from BIPOC-owned brands, and above all, buying “natural.” I systematically…

Sixteen years ago, I studied abroad in Japan for five weeks. It was one of those experiences that you know is probably going to change your life, but you never really see just how much it did affect you until years later. With the Tokyo 2020 Olympics just starting, I’m…

I can pinpoint with absolute laser accuracy the moment when, during my second weekend of 200-hr Yoga Teacher Training, I started to fully question my decision to take on this challenge. Halfway through our first day of the weekend, we’d completed two hour-long classes and a mindfulness workshop, and I…