Mar
13
Tweet Don’t get me wrong – I am a fan of OkCupid. There are not many platforms that will allow you to hit on seemingly endless men in your sweatpants and poorly-dried post-shower hair. If you’re feeling down, you can rifle through profile after profile and briefly imagine that somehow, one of these dudes will …
Mar
12
Tweet In honor of Boston, the city of runners, and my current training for a half marathon, I want to pay homage to all of the amazing things that I have learned from running over the years. Running has made me a better person in many ways, but I firmly believe that it is directly …
Mar
11
Tweet It’s 2013, and we are pretty well into the age where women have their own jobs and their own disposable incomes. According to research published last year, 53% of women are either the sole or primary breadwinners in their households (this includes divorced and single women, as well as the 22% of women who …
Mar
04
Tweet As mentioned in a previous post, I recently moved to a whole new city. Moving, as we all know, is always terrible, but I found an inter-state move to be even worse. I wound up with a sublet for the month of January, which, while helpful, meant that I moved all of my crap …
Feb
26
Tweet People make a big deal about this concept that men and women are very different – some go so far as to claim that we are in fact from two different planets (both seemingly inhospitable to human life, but that’s neither here nor there). I think that harping on the differences between genders is …
Feb
20
Tweet As most of us know, Facebook has been slowly increasing its personalized ads since the good old days when only people with college or university email addresses could join. There is something insanely creepy about a website that can monitor a good portion of your social behavior using your friends and conversations to try …
Feb
19
Tweet Dear readers, In answer to the above question, I submit the following pictures: I painted my nails awesomely, then I went to Germany, then I moved to Boston and immediately went to a Bruins game (which they lost, but whatever). In actuality, though I did all of the above things, the absence of …
Oct
10
Tweet Don’t tell my boss, but it’s 1 AM and I’ve been sitting at my computer for an hour, aimlessly surfing the net and watching Bad Lip Reading on YouTube in a vain attempt to collect my thoughts and explain how much I am feeling about the attack on fourteen-year-old Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai. I …
Sep
27
Tweet There’s a story making its way around the interwebs this week that is absolutely worth a look. It’s an incredibly important message for anyone who has ever felt self-conscious about their appearance (so…everyone). It’s also a lesson in maturity and compassion in the face of ignorance. A Reddit user posted a candid shot of …