Unless you're the mom of a baby or toddler no doubt you've experienced at least one disappointing if not downright miserable Mother's Day. Mine was the year my middle son (who was immersed in finals at his college) 'forgot' to call.
The man looks deep into my soul and says, "Grinding is usually a sign of stress or anxiety. Your teeth are much more damaged than they should be for someone your age. Do you want to talk about it?"
I've done something a few times over the past few months that I would never have dreamed over doing 10, five, or even two years ago. I've attended events completely stag. And let me tell you something, it ain't so bad.
It's not just introversion that can act as a handicap in these situations, but also discomfort with a communication style that works to your advantage in the workplace -- something that many of us are discouraged from this as kids: shvitzing.
Lena Dunham's HBO show Girls-and the online conversation that has surrounded it since its April debut-calls to mind something Violent Femmes singer Go...
Your 20s are a time when the things you do -- and the things you don't do -- will have an enormous effect across years and even generations to come. Here are 9 things that so many twentysomethings do that mess up their lives.
My generation needs to admit that we have a problem. Hi, we are Generation Y, and we are overly entitled consumption addicts with expectations that are incongruous with a finite world.
A month or so in, one of my female bosses called me to her office to tell me specifically to stop looking like an intern. She suggested I cut my hair....
I was fortunate enough to spend the past two weeks in London and Paris. Here are my sweeping generalizations about London and Paris and most likely unfair comparisons between them and our city by the bay. Take 'em or leave 'em.
I don't drink a lot of PBR or tool around on a fixie bike or wear a fedora -- but those traits belong to the hipster of yore anyway, don't they? Isn't today's hipster a little more evolved?
Greetings, SFTEs and SFTE-adjacents! I imagine you've gotten used to the acronym by now. In case you haven't, here's a little refresher: It stands for San Francisco Twenty-something Experience, and I invented it.
We've been huge fans of a good potluck long before we became the bloggers of Big Girls, Small Kitchen. As you'll read in The Book, we grew up amongst ...
Perhaps in 20 years global citizens or political leaders will be able to relate to each other with just a little more ease because of the sense of connectivity among many young people today.
"This party," Herbie Ziskend announced, "is in honor of John Quincy Adams." The dirty-blond, blue-eyed 24-year-old, who once handled luggage for Barac...
Summer is approaching and your twenty something is graduating. The last thing you want is your twenty something using their lack of experience and the slow job market as an excuse to lay on the couch watching reality TV.
In a recent interview, mumblecore director Kentucker Audley discussed the cinematic movement he's associated with, his filmmaking technique, and how to break out of the genre's insular tendencies.
Now that Spring is in full bloom, many of us are motivated to do spring cleaning. From our closets to our cupboards, clearing away clutter leaves us f...
Dear Christine,
"I can't seem to concentrate at work. I'm going through a break-up, fighting with my roommate, and at odds with my parents. I feel t...