“Hey, are you already there?”
We didn't lose romance to smartphones — we lost the five minutes before it.
An essay on nostalgia, anticipation, and why constant check-ins erode trust.
The performance of being unbothered.
It's a Boomer coping mechanism with some new branding.
“If they wanted to, they would.”
The phrase is everywhere — captions, comments, therapy language that escaped the confines of an office and started running loose online.
Profiling people never stopped. We just made it trendy.
Sorting people into types doesn’t help you understand them. All you’re doing is deciding—deciding quickly who gets the benefit of the doubt.
Being Good Isn’t Supposed to Make You Happy
But when did making ourselves happy become evidence that we’re making the right decision? Because those aren’t necessarily the same thing.
I used to be a brainwashed New Yorker
The amount of pride in their tone when they say “it’s the greatest city in the world” makes me want to vomit now.
Types You Date in Your Twenties
If I had to choose three words to describe my twenties: sex, drugs & Don Julio.
We Don't Change. We Get Rewritten
The self you swear is really you is just whichever draft you’re on now.
Why does “wife” trigger feminists?
Why do married women bother feminists so much? Why does raising children, cooking for a husband, building a happy home get under their skin so bad?
Are you an excuse generator?
Excuse-generating becomes a part of their character; a crutch they lean on instead of leveling up.
The cheapest creative reset I’ve ever tried
I honed in on my writer’s voice with ‘morning pages’
Your brain is begging for you to ‘touch grass’
The internet turned it into an insult. But our brains are craving for some green.
When did everything become ‘trauma’?
When the language of psychology enters the chat.
Let Men Hunt You
And this is where women are left wondering why they didn’t get that second date…
When control starts controlling you
The need to control every outcome can quietly destroy our happiness