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Psychology
The Stories We Tell To Help You Part With Your Money
Twice a year, the insurance company I worked for would get all its salespeople together to receive...
Making Art That Reflects Who You Are
And the benefits of knowing about the spotlight effect I watched a video with text that read, “me...
Disney’s Disregard for Premature Existential Conversations
Parenting, post-viral nihilism and the illusion of control I was eating raspberries straight out...
I Chemically Straightened My Hair Because My Family Was Ashamed
Parenting and the illusion of reprieve “Scientifically handsome” is what most anthropologists...
Of the Norovirus and Other Joys of Pietri Dish Parenting
The (ca) calamity of 2023 — a most bio-hazardous Valentine’s edition. “I’d rather die on my feet...
Video Performance: Skating Into Trauma
Okay, fine. I’m delusional. I thought I would never break my early morning routine. For more...
A Loogie On Your Face
On Issues of Form, Content and Feedback Fernando Londono was addressing Colombia’s congress when a...
Dropping the dreams of rural retirement
Art in the Lobby There is no more beautiful landing than landing in San Diego at night. The...
Dynamite For Our Old Wounds
A Colombian New Year’s Tradition ‘El año viejo” was a tradition I grew up with in Colombia. A...
Survival Strategies for Sleep-Deprived Parents
Crank-R-Us Today is a very important day for me. I’m launching ‘Speed-R-Us.’ “Speed-R-Us” will be...
Becoming a Feminist in a Masculine World
Where is Waldo’s Tip? “I am not your audience,” my wife snapped. “I don’t think those jokes...
Recent Articles
Silly Rabbit, Trinkets Don’t Replace Hugs
The Impulse to Buy Mementos While Being Away From Home The first few years after my parent’s divorce, my sister and I would eagerly wait for my mom to come home from work every night. We were living...
The Media’s Pressure on Average Men
The Vasectomy Dialogues: An Evolutionary Defense for Promptly Coming Photo by Irv P on Unsplash Scholars and women advocates like to talk about the effects of the media on women, but nobody talks...
Is a Father a Man If He Only Has Daughters?
The Vasectomy Dialogues: The Obsession Over Having Boys I laughed at how amazing it was that all this time bringing my oldest daughter to get “Paletas,” and she never goes, “That one! I want the...