Remember the last time someone you barely knew came up to you and asked: “So, are you and your partner enjoying unprotected sex on a regular basis?” Wait, you don’t? It happens to me all the time. Because when you’re a parent, it’s amazing how many people — at...
For the first three decades of my life, I ate whatever I wanted without ramifications. It was like having a superpower. So I devoured all sorts of crap en masse: Candies; chip; onion rings; and tons of chicken nuggets (with the Ranch Dressing) foremost among it. Recently, however,...
When you’re a dad, parenting questions often come up that you struggle to find an answer to. Since other parents are the worst and the internet will send you down a rabbit hole of paralyzing, paranoid terror, we’re here to help by putting those questions to the experts....
Here’s a situation pretty much everyone can relate to: You’re sitting at the bar with your two best friends when one of them excuses himself to the bathroom. As he steps out of earshot, you turn to the other friend to roast the now-excused friend — perhaps his new...
One of my least attractive character traits is a penchant for correcting people’s grammar. It’s never well-received, likely because correcting grammar is rarely about grammar and usually about demonstrating intellectual or cultural superiority. At least that’s how it’s perceived. “Mind your subjunctive,” I once teased a date....
Remember when physical cash was a thing? That green stuff that made the world go round? It’s quickly become a thing of the past, with most of us not bothering to carry any actual bills around with us anymore. Why would we? Between credit cards and phone...
The right jeans make a buttless man look like he’s packing serious backdoor heat. A beard will give a chinless man a lifetime of faux gravitas. Bras push boobs up to gravity-defying heights. And bald men sometimes wear hats to cover up thinning hair or total baldness....
When you’re a dad, parenting questions often come up that you struggle to find an answer to. Since other parents are the worst and Google will send you down a rabbit hole of paralyzing, paranoid terror, we’re here to help by putting those questions to the experts....
For the longest time, the sports world (and by the sports world, I mean myself) has been haunted by an unsolvable brain teaser: If you were to assemble a representative portion of the general populace, could more of those people dunk a basketball on a regulation hoop, or...
Getting a “sleep divorce” is all the rage now. Article after article touts the benefits — namely a good night’s sleep and a healthier relationship. Actual people are trying it, too: A 2010 study found that nearly one-quarter of married couples are choosing to sleep separately, double the number...
On those nights when you weren’t expecting or even intending to get lucky, there’s usually a moment of panic that comes with taking someone back to your place: Did you make the bed? Does your bedroom still smell good — or just good to you? Did you ever take...
Most of us have heard at some point or another that men and women, the Marses and Venuses of the humanoid planetary system, are star-crossed lovers: Men hit their sexual peak at 18, while women hit their sexual peak at 35, never the twain to peak (or...