The most popular post in the history of the r/happycryingdads subreddit is a video of man learning he’s going to be a grandfather. The man, who has a mustache and wears a Chicago Cubs bullpen jacket, opens a box to find a pacifier. Tied to the pacifier...
In 2009, L.A.-based family therapist and licensed social worker Christopher Mulligan noticed a startling trend among the children and teens he was treating: An increasing number of them were developing pathological relationships with technology, so much so that Mulligan reconfigured his practice to focus on “cyber addiction.”...
There’s an adage among entrepreneurs that you solve for the problem you have. Socially inept? Build a social network. No fashion sense? Create a personal styling service. Too busy to eat? Invent a soy-based meal substitute that tastes like liquified plywood. This compulsion has led to some...
A large swath of the American electorate is convinced Donald J. Trump will make a fabulous president simply because he’s a good negotiator. Little do they know that Trump’s best-selling negotiation manual, The Art of the Deal, was ghostwritten by Tony Schwartz, who publicly renounced the book...
Keith Lippa — bald, tan and a touch paunchy, shoulders slightly hunched underneath a red polo and pair of khakis — ambles into Hiro Sushi, a nondescript Japanese restaurant in Richmond, Virginia. He settles into one of the many empty black booths for what will be a welcome break from his...
This is the second installment of our series Into the Black, where we hear from people who escaped the overwhelming burden of unpaid bills and loans through their own sacrifice and ingenuity. First up was Paige Trimble from North Carolina, who paid back $68,000 in three years....
“I have no interest in retirement,” Leon Dash says from his office in Gregory Hall, on the University of Illinois campus in Urbana-Champaign. At 72, Dash has, by all accounts, lived an exceptionally full, successful life— one that more than merits a comfortable retirement. Dash spent 30...
Do you bottle up your anger when you argue with your spouse, only to let it out in occasional outbursts of rage? Prepare to have debilitating cardiovascular problems when you’re older. Or do you shut down when confronted with conflict, “stonewalling” your significant other? Musculoskeletal ailments may...
How the hell am I supposed to pack this thing? I thought to myself, staring at my freshly purchased fedora. I had no intention of keeping this accessory long-term. My plan when I bought the ridiculously overpriced, much-maligned hat earlier that day was to wear it for...
My grandfather was a Dick. I mean his name was Dick. Technically, his name was Richard, but all we ever called him was Dick. So, yeah, my grandfather was a Dick. Not a big Dick — he wasn’t an exceptionally large man, 6 feet tall — but a Dick, no less....
Turns out the dude who used to make you uneasy during Ms. Swanson’s third period American Lit class — you know, the guy who sat in the corner; with the black jeans, black Converse and Judas Priest T-shirt; the one who knew about Black Sabbath long before you discovered...
