When you grow up poor, it doesn’t take long before you realize that there are people in the world who have more than you (thanks, television!), but they mostly seem distant, almost unreal. When you grow up comfortable, you may never comprehend that there are people who...
Phil Morgese has been a single dad since his daughter Emma was 1 year old. Of the many challenges Morgese faced, managing Emma’s hair was among the hardest. Until he learned a simple three-strand braid. Which led to a fishtail braid. And then a braided bun. And...
It’s official. John Kortier’s expensive GPS system, a feature of his brand-new car, isn’t great at helping him reroute around traffic. Instead, Kortier relies religiously on Waze, a free app that combines maps with social networking to help fellow drivers avoid traffic and arrive at their destinations...
Even before they began dragging passengers off planes like roadkill, domestic air travel had become an experience to be endured rather than enjoyed. The seats are getting smaller, the delays are getting longer and the bathrooms are disappearing. Then there are the passengers — the brawlers, the sprawlers, the...
No matter what they try, some people can’t seem to stop themselves from being late. They’ve tried setting their clocks 10 minutes fast; their friends have tried giving them fake, earlier-than-you’re-actually-meeting meet-up times. Yet these people can still never get their life together. Why? “There’s no one reason...
No matter what you do, someone always thinks they know how to do it better. Whether it’s a DIY project, chopping vegetables or raising your child, you will be monitored by others who are primed to step in and let you know you’re doing it wrong. “Next...
Women often complain that a pricey downside of applying foundation is that much of it is wasted on a sponge. Beauty vlogger Laila Tahri recently found internet fame proposing a hack for this conundrum: wrapping the Beauty Blender — a small egg-shaped sponge — in a non-absorbent condom first and then...
For as long as sofas have been big enough to sleep on (late 1600s, France) it’s safe to assume somebody in a relationship was sent there to tough it out after a fight. Cut to today, and a recent survey of nearly 3,000 British people found that...
One of the weirder features of being a guy is our preferred method of letting other guys know we value them, trust them and enjoy hanging out with them: By being spectacularly, unforgivably rude toward them in public. An unfortunate side effect of this bizarre ball-busting bonding...
There are competing theories about the origin of the term “cup of joe.” Some say “Joe” is slang for the common man; hence a cup of joe is the common man’s drink. Others claim the term was born in 1914 when Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels...
There’s been a trend in recent years for “natural insemination” — men who advertise themselves online as sperm donors but who will actually have sex with the recipients, like this guy from the Netherlands. All the while, the more conventional method of seed exchange, sperm banking, is more popular...
It was just after 8 p.m. when the doorbell rang. Rita Taylor peeled herself off the couch where she’d been playing Xbox and opened the door. There stood a delivery guy and a box of pizza. At first, Taylor figured it was a mistake. I didn’t order...