Healthcare has always been a big part of the American news cycle. The pandemic has made it the lead story for over a year and half, both in media and in our personal lives. While many parts of [...]

If you’re like me, you’re a devotee of that most beloved internet time-suck, Apartment Therapy. Started in 2014 as a weekly home design newsletter, the platform expanded to be a leading source of [...]

In the late 1980s, then-president Ronald Regan famously stated, “Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall!’ He was talking, of course, about the Berlin Wall, that most famous of barriers between east [...]

In the past few weeks, our collective pandemic circumstances are evolving to a new normal, and it feels both fast and slow. Vaccination rates, restaurant returns, and travel are all picking up [...]

It’s taken me a whole month to write this blog post, and even with that, it’s going to be brief. Watching the world slowly creep back to ‘the before times’ has been a huge, positive distraction [...]

I read an article in The Atlantic last week that suggested our Covid 2021 summer might be the best one of our lives. As vaccinations make their way into arms, and restrictions slowly lift, there [...]

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I don’t know many people who are super thrilled about the year that is 2020. It has been challenging for most of us, and I think we’ll all be glad to see it end. Certain things are looking up, [...]

If I were to make a Spotify playlist today, Helen Reddy’s “I Am Woman” would be on it. Reddy passed recently, as did Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, marking the loss of two icons of [...]

It’s almost Labor Day. In typical years, this three-day weekend is a time to gather to say good bye to summer, host a barbecue, take a dip in the water, or get households ready for a new school [...]