The character on this conventional boxed tea is popular enough, one you’ve no doubt seen in grocery stores for decades, but a close-up look reveals something surprisingly tender.

Ria Hawks teaches best by showing. As she sits at the wooden, two-pedal weaving loom and guides the reed back and forth, her instruction takes on a melodic, chant-like cadence. I push it towards me. I push it away. I change my feet.

The best possible outcome of any vacation is its many opportunities for sweet, salubrious, life-affirming SLEEP. I’ve discovered the power of summoning, within my own bedroom walls, the sleep of the best vacation I’ve never taken.

In these days, in which ‘Celebrity Culture is Burning,’ it’s refreshing to see Mayer, who has long honed his platform in public, (and, in the past, who has endured his own share of public missteps), as someone who just gets it.

Much like the perfect, camel-colored cashmere sweater, the pancake upholds a timeless, platonic neutral idea of comfort. And, similar to the international diners erected to house them, in times of crisis, pancakes are reliable — and soft.

A Casio Gold Digital will make you feel like a no-nonsense '80s power broker. Checking the time on a white Timex with rainbow-colored numerals is guaranteed to make you feel like it's time for a banana split.

I attended Robert McKee’s Storytelling Seminar in Los Angeles, and enjoyed the three-day intensive so much that I wrote a lazy college-style essay on his capstone Casablanca lecture, so as not to forget it.

The ‘90s slime aesthetic reflects a childlike fascination with our own bodies, a cartoonized manifestation of what could come out of them. While at once intensely personal and of the body, this shade of alien green speaks to the unknown, to outer space. Ergo, this color projects the shapeless, the limitless.

As an adult I have a not unfounded fear related to watching and participating in Organized Team Sports. Yet I’ve managed to glom onto its hyper-specific rituals, allowing a point of entry to caring and empowering me to live in a world that I can’t change.

Perhaps the impending Netflix reboot explain how the aesthetic of the Babysitters Club universe and its illustrated fashion-y book covers has become fixed in my imagination.

To Grammy, A Eulogy. In many ways, she was so perfectly well-suited to be a Grammy. She never missed a birth or a birthday, she had elegant cursive handwriting, and she loved her grandchildren (and children, and great-grandchildren) dearly. And yet, there was so much more to Grammy than the sum of these parts.