“Beyond the fact that this mysterious yogurt looked less like yogurt than it did a cross between cottage cheese and whipped cream, the words “coconut” (yum) and “cult” (ooOooooOo) had me immediately intrigued.”Tagged: Wellness, Health
“The widely held assumption that the brains of flight attendants are chock full of juicy stories from their adventures in the sky is decidedly not without merit.”Tagged: humor, Crazy Stories, Air Travel, Planes, Airplanes
“As challenging as it is being a military spouse, the ever-present uncertainty about where life will take us next can be kind of exhilarating.”Tagged: Memorial Day, Military Spouse, Military, Marriage, Love
“At the same time Gen-Z yellow was being groomed by for a millennial pink takedown, another contender emerged: lavender.”Tagged: Millennial Pink, Melodramatic Lavender, Color
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that finding something to wear to a wedding where you are a guest is one of the hardest sartorial endeavors known to humankind.”Tagged: Weddings, Wedding Dresses, Fashion, clothing, Sex And The City
“As an equal participant in the relationship, why shouldn’t I be the one to ask what, or if, we should label it?”Tagged: Relationships & Dating
“Part of me is convinced that to be a woman is to live in fear of being reduced to the smallest, meanest thought I’ve ever had about myself, and that’s why I tried to make my body smaller instead. I tried to beat the world to the punch, but I played right into its trap. My body found its way back. My…”Tagged: Body Image
“The link between style and sexuality is both obvious and inextricable, not only in terms of the tension between what is revealed and what is not, but also because of how thoroughly these threads are woven into the tapestries of our identity: a merging of the physical (clothes, bodies) with the…”Tagged: Fashion
“We repeat stories about ourselves to make sense of our worlds. The stories I’ve always told about who I am — that I don’t take risks, that I’m the good daughter, that I’m the uncomplicated girlfriend, that I have to look a certain way to be happy, that the shape of my future is not only obvious but…”Tagged: Anxiety
“Weaving together threads of capitalism, canny marketing, internet lore, class anxiety, sexism and the “treat yo’ self” industrial complex, the story of how the drink came to be a simultaneously hated and adored fixture of fall is not something to be celebrated so much as it is something to be…”Tagged: pumpkin, food, Fall, trends
“If I accept that all of this is subject to change, how can I know what’s valid? What’s true and what’s not? What’s me and what isn’t?”Tagged: Identity
“Doubts aren’t necessarily a symptom of ineffectiveness so much as they are evidence that you care, and if that’s the case, you’re exactly where you need to be.”Tagged: Career, Imposter Syndrome
“The fact that Nate thinks his is more important than Andy’s career is a real hoot.”Tagged: Bad Boyfriends, Men Suck, Movies, The Devil Wears Prada
“Even though I was the one to propose, it felt like submitting to a norm rather than subverting one.”Tagged: Marriage, Gender Norms
“The fact that I like Mondays more than Sundays might be the most inflammatory thing about me. It’s a blatant betrayal of social code, a violation against the social media-enforced conduct manual wherein weeks — particularly the beginnings of them — are maligned and weekends are worshipped like the…”Tagged: Weekends, Stress
“I wouldn’t say I’m jealous by nature, but I am openly and unabashedly jealous of morning people. I consider them better, more evolved human beings — more amenable to the schedules and requirements of modern life as it currently exists.”Tagged: Morning, schedule
“I want to be more charming because whenever I am the recipient of someone else’s charm, I have the distinct pleasure of feeling at peace with my whole human self, and I want to not only be the beneficiary of this kind of feeling, but also the genesis of it for others.”Tagged: charm
“They aren’t the stuff of off-duty errands. They’re special. They’re different. They’re noteworthy. Meanwhile, when I wear a turtleneck, it’s as unremarkable as burping after a swig of club soda.”Tagged: Fashion, men's fashion, Turtlenecks
“My personal experience grappling with these questions is limited, but during the four years when my current boyfriend and I were broken up, I remember swallowing jealousy the size of a softball at the mere thought of him being with someone else, much less posting about it on Instagram. Then again, I…”Tagged: Breaking Up, Jealousy
“I’m fairly certain there was also another element at play that had nothing to do with the interview and everything to do with the excuse it provided–an element that lit up the discourse like gasoline on an open flame, capturing the internet’s fickle attention with self-perpetuating fervor: Two…”Tagged: alison roman, Cancel Culture, Gossip, Marie Kondo, chrissy teigen