A child’s delight in hunting for Easter eggs (and consuming all the jelly beans stashed inside), dying eggs in vibrant colors, and digging through baskets full of chocolate bunnies may start to wane as they hit their preteen and teenager years. Your pastel plastic tablecloth with the flowers and bunnies is suddenly deeply uncool, and […]

Home and car ownership is a funny thing. Since most people have to take out loans to buy a house or a car (even a used one), you don’t really “own” anything until you pay off the note. Your lender has a stake in the property, after all—the house or the vehicle is the collateral […]

For as much energy as you put into creating the perfect to-do list and being productive, it’s just a fact that you also need to prioritize downtime and joy. You can schedule breaks using the Pomodoro technique and prioritize your tasks based on how long they’ll take and how many results they’ll yield, but you […]

Many years ago, I saw a tweet go around that said something like, “You have the same amount of hours in a day as Beyoncé.” On the one hand, that was annoying, because while it’s true, I don’t have the same amount of resources. Still, yes, everyone has the same amount of hours in a […]

Bread can be overtaken by moldy bits and staleness quickly, but storing it properly can largely prevent those problems altogether. I’m not talking about siloing away your loaf in one of those aesthetically cute wooden bread boxes. While those create helpful barriers if, say, you have a carb-loving cat like I do, they don’t do […]

Do you ever wish your Mac’s wallpaper was a little more…animated? Plash is a free app that lets you turn any website into your desktop wallpaper—and you’ll even be able to interact with it. There’s an easy way to use transform any YouTube video into wallpaper on Windows—this is the Mac version of that trick, […]