Personally, I love to-do lists. I have daily to-do lists, weekly to-do lists, work-related to-do lists, recreational to-do lists, a to-do list of new restaurants to try and a to-do list of my long-term life goals. I even have a checklist of every U.S. president so that...
Recently, yet another important argument broke out on Twitter — this time, about which stove burner is the “best.” Lots of people have a favorite, sure. But are some burners intrinsically better than the others? One of the weirder things about being an adult is having a...
Few things in life are as alluring as travel. For one thing, you’re actually leaving the ennui — not to mention all the responsibilities — of your current life behind! And of course, Instagram is full of wish-your-sucker-butt-was-here photos; culturally, too, more than a few writers have...
“A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.” So said Mark Twain, and it seems the more things change, the more things stay the same, since “reading more” consistently makes the top ten list of popular New Year’s resolutions. But...
I love sandwiches. Who doesn’t love sandwiches? Monsters, that’s who. But I’m also aware that many sandwiches aren’t necessarily well-rounded meals, which is why I asked nutritionist David Friedman, author of Food Sanity: How to Eat in a World of Fads and Fiction, to help me rank...
Most everybody’s unhappy these days — or at least, somewhat dissatisfied. Maybe your job bores the hell out of you; maybe life just hasn’t turned out the way you hoped it would; maybe you lost sight of a lifelong ambition at some point, and it’s fallen by...
You probably heard this stat from earlier this year: 40 percent of adults don’t even have 400 bucks to cover an emergency if they needed to. No surprise, then, that spending less money and saving more of it is a super popular New Year’s resolution. Last year, we interviewed several...
Have you ever been to a gym right after the New Year? What about in the first week of February? If you have, you’ll be asking yourself where everybody went, but you know the answer: They’re back home on the couch, swearing that they’ll make it happen...
Is anybody as organized as they’d like to be? Probably not, but still, we all know at least one person who’s such a red-hot mess they make us look like a model of minimalist precision in comparison. There are so many disorganized folk out there, in fact,...
Good morning. We know, you’re not quite sure what happened last night: All you know is that you invited a few buddies over to celebrate the new year, and the next thing you know you wake up with a wicked hangover, all of your friends are gone...
Pasty white family-friendly comedian James Gaffigan has an old but timeless bit about the inherent awkwardness of having members of different friend groups interact with each other: “There are so many weird situations in life anyway. You ever mix two different groups of friends? That can be...
You could say I’m prone to hangovers. And that’s not because of some genetic failing or predisposition. It’s just that, well, I’m simply not a one-glass-of-wine-at-dinner kind of girl. Call it whatever you want — an occupational hazard, binge drinking, a lack of self-control — I prefer...
