Now this is just sad: According to a recent survey, nearly half of Americans have no summer vacation plans, with a quarter of respondents citing affordability as the biggest factor for not planning a getaway. On the flip side, respondents who do plan to go on vacation...
One of the perks of being in a relationship is always having someone around to rub sunscreen on your back. When you’re single, however — and if your friends, for whatever reason, refuse to lather up your hard-to-reach bits — you’re seemingly out of luck. Although you can kind of smear...
Preparing for your own death is sort of like — well, it’s actually unlike anything else, because it means you have to come face-to-face with your own mortality (and admit that this is one fight you’re guaranteed to lose). It also means preparing for a world without you in...
Beyond the classic quandary—to tuck or untuck—the button-down shirt also brings with it another conundrum: How many buttons should remain unbuttoned? This is especially true at the dawn of summer when skin of any kind can seem more exposed than intended and everyone is showing a bit...
For soft-handed laptop jockeys like myself, merely existing in the sun with a T-shirt on can result in an intense farmer’s tan. This would be fine, but when you have to go into work — or wear anything else that fits differently in public — people will inevitably make fun of you...
For some people, a trip to the beach ruins their hair for the rest of the day: Somehow, your hair both super dry and sticky; and your scalp is also caked in sand (and that sand doesn’t go away — it’s seemingly there forever now). On the other hand,...
Sunburns are the absolute worst, both in the immediate “this sucks” sense, and in the more long term, “Oh great, now I have cancer” sense. Beyond that, most of us treat sunburns like we do any other ailment — complain about it, treat it and move on. But what...
The road trip seems like the simplest vacation ever: All you need is a road and a set of wheels, right? While those two things are certainly important, when it comes to driving long distances, there’s probably still a bit you can learn from the people who...
Once upon a time you were in shape. It was a glorious time, a time when you could saunter to the gym whenever you liked and closely monitor the stuff you put in your body. But since that first kid came into your life, things have never...
For some of us, it’s hard enough to fit our awkward shapes or oversized bodies into everyday attire, let alone swimwear. And while the goal is to just enjoy the sun and have a good time, it’s hard not to feel like a vast pile of crap-flavored...
Wedding season, apart from probably being the only time you don a tuxedo, is inevitably the time you’ll be forced to hang out with family members you’ve spent the majority of your life trying to avoid. Maybe it’s the uncle who assumes the role of the “funny...
In late April, Macmillan Cancer Support (one of the largest charities in Britain) revealed that men are less than half as likely to call their support lines as women, suggesting that guys are significantly less willing to ask for help, even when diagnosed with cancer. The charity...