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2021 TV Faves: Comedy, Now With Feelings!

2021 TV Faves: Comedy, Now With Feelings!

I watched a LOT of streaming shows in 2021. Almost all of my favorites were comedies with a little something more to offer–emotional depth!

Walking Children in Nature

Walking Children in Nature

A Former Indoor Kid on the Joys of Yard Work

A young woman with short dark brown hair shrugs her shoulders and looks both confused and disgusted while holding a mobile ph

Note to Self: A SWOT Analysis of “Being Kinder to Myself”

A digital strategist tries to be nice(r) to the garbage human I know lives inside me

The Final Frontier

The Final Frontier

Why I May Never Get Off This Rock (And Why I’m Finally Okay With That)

We Need to Talk About Armond

We Need to Talk About Armond

Towards a Theory of Toxic Masculinity and The White Lotus

I’m One of Those Weirdos Who Actually Wants to Go Back to My Office

I’m One of Those Weirdos Who Actually Wants to Go Back to My Office

But not five days a week, and definitely not for “in-person collaboration”.

Photo of a light-skinned person with short hair and several tattoos wearing a mud facial mask and making a silly face.

I Think I’m Done Using Only “Natural” Beauty Products?

Last spring, when the pandemic was just getting started and we were all fifty or so years younger, I decided it was time to purge my…

Posters on a Japanese train car with the slogan, “Nikko is Nippon”

Dispatches from Tomorrow: Nikko

Sixteen years ago, I studied abroad in Japan for six weeks. “Nikko” is the second of several essays I wrote a year later

On Being the Fat Yogi in the Group Picture

On Being the Fat Yogi in the Group Picture

I can pinpoint with absolute laser accuracy the moment when, during my second weekend of 200-hr Yoga Teacher Training, I started to fully…

Wake Up, White People: White Supremacy is a Fantasy, but its Reality is Far Worse

Wake Up, White People: White Supremacy is a Fantasy, but its Reality is Far Worse

There’s a scene in Spike Lee’s fantastic 2018 film BlacKKKlansman that is one of the most chilling and accurate demonstrations of how White…

Let’s Talk About Burt’s, Bay-bees

Let’s Talk About Burt’s, Bay-bees

Does anyone else remember reading InStyle in the mid-90’s and remembering distinctly that Cher declared her favorite lip balm was this…

Leonardo, The Good Place, and St. Francis of Assisi

Leonardo, The Good Place, and St. Francis of Assisi

I had never been to a Catholic funeral before; the running gag over the last few decades was that my aunt and uncle had a Baptist wedding…