You’ve probably noticed that pretty much all money advice deals with bad financial news. Which may explain why, when we do occasionally happen upon a small financial windfall, we have no idea what to do with it and generally end up throwing it away. Curious what the smart...
On the sole of your foot, right in the center of the heel. According to the ancient practice of reflexology, that’s the zone of the foot that corresponds to the genitals. Further forward, in the arch of your foot, right before the ball, is the zone that...
On one hand, anyone who’s given a presentation or struggled through a math problem knows the benefits of vocally pumping themselves up in the bathroom mirror, or cursing their way through the equation. On the other, if anyone witnessed you muttering your way through your bills, alone...
Last week, a former colleague mentioned that when applying for her new role, she was up against a candidate who had worked at their current role for seven years, which was considered a red flag. Rather than seeing the candidate’s seven-year tenure as the mark of a...
Let me make a safe assumption: You’re probably at home this morning feeling uncomfortably bloated from yesterday’s Thanksgiving dinner. Most likely, you’re lounging around in your sweatpants as the waistband expands and contracts with each labored breath. Of course, nowadays, you could’ve left the house in your...
Since the full stretch of my romantic life has been “normal” (read: not always catastrophic), it has only recently come to my attention that some people, while in a committed relationship, talk about their ex too much. Maybe even their exes, plural. Apparently this is the sort...
First, let us define our terms: When women talk about our bras, we are really talking about our boobs, and about enduring the fraught experience that is having to have a Boob Management System. Every woman has one, and it’s carefully honed over a lifetime. And let...
Most of us work more than we live, which is to say we spend considerably more time at the office and with our coworkers than we do with the human beings we actually want in our lives. It also means that the stressors and anxieties of work...
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....
Gratitude is among the greatest virtues a person can possess. Being thankful keeps you humble, makes others feel good and is one of those things psychologists always cite as a key to happiness. Among the most obvious ways to reach this state of being is to be...
The Feminist Dad, often mocked for not caring about women until he had skin in the game — literally — has become a news punchline again for good reason. Vulture’s Hunter Harris recently called out already problematic celebrity feminist dads who looked the other way when it really counted, but are now...
There are certainly worse things than finding yourself caught in a love triangle, but try telling that to someone stuck in one. Case in point: A very tortured man has written to The Guardian asking for help in choosing between his girlfriend and his ex because he...