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Every year, I try to rewatch dozens of movies, finding comfort in seeing familiar characters and saying aloud what their next lines will be. Around Thanksgiving, I’d prep myself for this tradition with one of my favorites, “When Harry Met Sally” by reading the screenplay for the first time ever,…
Within 24 hours of graduating from college, I hit the road and drove 1,500 miles away from my hometown to begin my first full-time job. I was officially in the “real world.”For the next eight years, I moved from apartment to apartment and city to city, spending my 20s exploring…
This past summer, I experienced a modern-day miracle: I matched on Hinge with an attractive guy, with an interesting job and hobbies, and he messaged me. He asked me on a date, planned it, and showed up (and was actually over 6 feet tall, as advertised). He asked me on…
The R&B singer Cassie Ventura, a longtime girlfriend of Sean “Diddy” Combs, broke down on the witness stand Tuesday as she testified she felt “worthless” joining in on the drug-fueled sex marathons that he called “freak offs.””I felt pretty horrible about myself. I felt disgusting. I was humiliated. I didn’t…
For nearly eight years, I didn’t have a car and lived in super walkable cities, like New York City, which meant I often got close to 10,000 steps a day just by commuting to work and doing daily tasks like grabbing coffee or groceries.When I moved from NYC to North…
Someone once said that love finds you in the most unexpected places. And for what my life is today, this has never been more true.I’ve always been proud of having a family and being a father. I have two grown daughters, 21 and 26, and they have taught me the…
When my older sister called to let me know that the painful lump in her breast was not a clogged milk duct from nursing her newborn, my world shattered. My 31-year-old sister was diagnosed with stage 3C breast cancer.I immediately purchased a one-way plane ticket to stay with her and…
Warning: Minor spoilers for “The Studio” episode one.Apple TV+’s buzzy new satire, “The Studio,” skewers Hollywood’s recent embrace of brands with a prominent storyline about a “Kool-Aid” movie.You might think the real-life people who make brand-backed films and TV shows would be miffed. You’d be wrong. They love it —…
“This can’t be all there is,” I thought as I shuffled onto the F train, the Monday morning rush of commuters passing by in a blur as doors opened and closed at each subway stop.It’s not that “this” was so bad. I lived in New York City, which I, along…
