My love for grocery store croissants has been well-documented. While they lack the air structure of those you’d find at a Parisian bakery, they’re delightfully soft and greasy, and I don’t feel bad if they go a little stale. I have mitigation strategies, some of which are more even more delicious than a plain croissant. […]

When you hear someone described as a “serial dater,” you might assume they’re constantly in long-term relationships, never leaving themselves time in-between a breakup and the start of a new relationship to be single and enjoy their own company. As it turns out, the opposite is true: A serial dater is someone who loves the […]

Bad bosses, or managers who regularly disappoint you, are common. This disappointment you feel can be varied. Maybe you crave mentorship and you feel ignored, or you desire autonomy but you feel controlled. Or maybe you would just really appreciate your supervisor actually responding to your emails once in a while. You are not alone. […]

Remember when you were little and asking questions was easy? You weren’t expected to know everything, and everyone understood that you would need help sometimes. Yet now that you’re a parent helping your own kids, asking for help yourself seems so much harder—even when you feel just as lost and in need of guidance as […]

The idea of declaring “email bankruptcy”—just deleting all the emails in your inbox past a certain date—is so popular, it has its own Wikipedia entry. And it goes beyond email: Declaring a personal bankruptcy and mass-deleting games, movies, and e-books you fear you’ll never play, watch, or read is a common practice with proponents far […]

The 10 words below are commonly mispronounced in English. The first five are the top results from Google’s auto-fill for the phrase “How do I pronounce…” The rest are words that people often don’t know they’re messing up, so would be unlikely to search up on the web. I’m no prescriptivist—words are yours to do […]