You know, I always loved using high fashion to get people to think I’m relevant and matter as a human being as much as the next person. But, in the past five years or so, I’ve noticed: when I don’t like my up-till-now designer’s latest look, I can’t lie to myself or you by wearing it or even saying something nice about their ugly ensembles on deck for next season… Read More
Bar challenges patrons to survive socializing sans smartphone.
“Bar Creates Custom Glasses To Curb Cell Phone Use”. Mhmm. Mmkay. Intrigued enough to click. I’ll bite. Yeah. More’a this. I mean, it doesn’t take much meandering through my site to know I’m exactly one and a half Miley “news” updates away from moving into a treehouse and growing out a wedding train of arm pit hair for my jungle prince visitors to Rapunzel up and repel down. And that.. Read More
Airport human trafficking tips to be “Taken” into account.
Most people I know have seen “Taken”. But unfortunately most weren’t “taken” aback on an IRL level. Maybe it’s that the subject matter’s reality seems so far removed. Or because human trafficking is one of those uncomfy things we all gloss over as we scroll down the news feed. Like the Time article I just read that offers tips on how to spot a possible victim at an airport. It’s.. Read More
Jump Dispersal: Another Darwinian win.
It’s almost strange to think there was a time that evolution wasn’t widely accepted. As ya know, other stuff. (But only in that looking-back-at-Steve-Jobs-present-WiFi-for-the-first-time-in-1999 sort of way.) People didn’t know any better. While religious zealots were the ones who most saw it as a steaming batch of blasphemy in Darwin’s day, the scientific community also wasn’t that open to it initially. Then, as he carried on with his work, it.. Read More
Applied psych: keeping fammy secrets vs. Kendra Wilkinson approach.
Wow. Mindblowing story in a retro Psychology Today issue on “little detectives” – kids who uncover their parents awful lies, secrets, and scandals. It also reminded me about this Kendra Wilkinson story that popped up on Facebook the other day (more on that down the page) and made me do a mental about-face about the concept of sharing hard truths with your kids (versus keeping family secrets). It’s comforting to.. Read More