Blue’s Clues began airing on Nick Jr in 1996, which is much earlier than I thought. If I had to guess, I would have said 2000. I was already a…
I’ll be the first to admit that I’m running low on patience these days. As things continue to trend downward, I just don’t have the capacity to deal with things…
Over the past few years, my relationship with e-readers has changed. I was an early adopter of the Kindle, and read hundreds of books on various iterations, but I swapped…
When I was around seven years old, I sat at my family dining room table eating a grilled cheese sandwich my mother had prepared for me. As I bit into…
What can you do in nine minutes? Text a friend? Watch a YouTube video? Fill up your car with gas? How about having a job interview? Nine minutes seems a…
A couple of weeks ago, I finally snapped. The pressure in my real-life was mixing with the outrage online and it finally became too much to bear. As my dilapidated…
I have pretty good self-control around my cell phone. When I get home from work, I take my Apple Watch off and since most notifications are off and everything else…
I had a strange weekend, but before we get to that, let’s back up a few weeks to see what led to it. One day, I was sitting in my…
Like everyone else on this Godforsaken planet, I suffer from anxiety. It’s something I experience so often, I’m not even sure I could imagine a life where I wasn’t panicking…
It’s been five years since the COVID-19 pandemic, not that anyone who is reading this has forgotten. In some ways it feels like it’s been less than five years, in…