It's not you, co.
The influencers convinced you to start smoking in 2024 just like they convinced you to go vegan in 2015. This year, cigarettes have crept into my timeline, and it’s not just celebrities like Charli XCX and the cigarette bouquet Rosalía gave her for her birthday party. Influencers and celebs alike in New York, LA, London, […]
I’m sick of sharing. Somehow “we suggest 6-8 plates for two people” has become the new “and what would you like for your main?”. And I’m not happy about it. I don’t want to compete with my dining partners to get a slice of the best bite! Inevitably, 1-2 of those 6-8 plates are the […]
This is in no way medical or professional advice, just personal experience. Five months ago, I gave up alcohol. March 24, to be exact. I can give you the exact date that I gave up alcohol for two reasons: 1) I have an app on my phone that tracks my sober streak like a game […]
Growing up, I thought I was smart. A’s came easily, I took advanced classes in high school and of course my parents loved to say I was #gifted. So goes the story for millions and millions of other average, middle class, white people growing up in the US. Yet somehow, despite the odds and our […]
This is in no way medical or professional advice, just personal experience. Last Wednesday found me immobile on the couch until 4PM, wallowing in the self pity that only a gruesome hangover can induce. Luckily, or shrewdly, I’d taken the day off of work in anticipation of a late night on Tuesday from an out-of-town […]
My definition of a finsta: a ‘fake’ Instagram account that is not connected to your real identity, one where you don’t follow people you know in real life, and where you either 1) don’t post at all or 2) only post pics without you or people you know in them. I deleted my personal Instagram […]
Have you felt like recently you can’t make any decisions, or am I the only one? When it’s up to me to make a choice, even if there are only two options, even for the most mundane purposes, I feel a certain type of existential dread: a dread which grows as I weigh every. single. […]
If I didn’t rate it, did it actually even happen? I recently stopped rating the books I finish on Goodreads. I’d started planning each rating in my head while I was still reading a book, even before I’d made it halfway through. If I give this popstar’s memoir 5 stars, will people think I’m dumb? […]
It must be corn Chex. Not rice Chex. Not wheat Chex. It has to be homemade. The powdered sugar needs to be applied using a brown paper bag and shaking. Under no circumstances should you add any extra candies to spice things up. And please, for the love of God, do not call it ‘muddy […]
What other people had told me I was, I’d become. We’d just gotten home from a Super Bowl party at a family friend’s when I overheard my older sister saying to my mom that I had ‘no social skills’, to which my mother replied she ‘was thinking the same thing!’. I was 12. At the […]
As a disclaimer, this theory does not apply to the men in your life who say things like “why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?”. In cases such as those, he’s not dragging his feet, he doesn’t really think you’re a human. You may want to reevaluate that relationship rather […]
It's not you, co. 