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The Sleepytime Bear
Feb 8, 2022
The Sleepytime Bear
Feb 8, 2022

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.

Feb 8, 2022
She Retired as a Nurse Caring for Children with Chronic Illness, Now the Real Healing Starts
May 18, 2021
She Retired as a Nurse Caring for Children with Chronic Illness, Now the Real Healing Starts
May 18, 2021

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.

May 18, 2021
Trust Me, Try It: A Sound Machine That Makes You Feel Like You're Snoozing On a Tropical Island
Apr 28, 2020
Trust Me, Try It: A Sound Machine That Makes You Feel Like You're Snoozing On a Tropical Island
Apr 28, 2020

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.

Apr 28, 2020
'Current Mood' is a Balm For Uncertain Times
Apr 12, 2020
'Current Mood' is a Balm For Uncertain Times
Apr 12, 2020

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.

Apr 12, 2020
 Are Pancakes the Platonic Ideal of Comfort?
Mar 15, 2020
Are Pancakes the Platonic Ideal of Comfort?
Mar 15, 2020

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.

Mar 15, 2020
 The Forever Appeal of the Non-Statement, Statement Watch
Jan 28, 2020
The Forever Appeal of the Non-Statement, Statement Watch
Jan 28, 2020

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.

Jan 28, 2020
The Strange Pleasures of the Car Wash
Jan 17, 2020
The Strange Pleasures of the Car Wash
Jan 17, 2020

It doesn’t matter what car I’m in as long as the windshield is clean.

Jan 17, 2020
Casablanca as Modern Hero Myth
Nov 8, 2019
Casablanca as Modern Hero Myth
Nov 8, 2019

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.

Nov 8, 2019
Slime Green, the Color of Curiosity
Oct 15, 2019
Slime Green, the Color of Curiosity
Oct 15, 2019

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.

Oct 15, 2019