It feels like a year ago when the team doctor for the Oklahoma City Thunder ran onto the court. He conferred with officials just moments before tipoff was to happen. The packed arena watched, uncertain of what was happening. March 11th, a lifetime ago, was the early days of coronavirus. Rudy Gobert and Emmanuel Mudiay …
Look, we all have our own weird ways of dealing with our anxieties. I, avid consumer of true-crime media, fear an untimely end by a serial killer, for example. While others dealing with the same stress might avoid podcasts about a man breaking into someone’s home, living in their attic, and then attacking them with …
As the world shut down, it was hard not to get a little glass-half-full about the situation. Sure, we’re all stuck inside our homes, but given the havoc humans wreck on the planet on the daily, you’d think the planet would be benefit now that we’re grounded. Environmentalists were quick to warn that any benefit …
COVID-19 hit the movie industry hard. It caused not only the shuttering of movie theaters, but halted current productions. At least until wide spread testing comes to the United States starts wide spread testing to track and contain the virus. What that means for movie fans is it’ll be a long, long time before we …
Eating out in a restaurant has become a distant memory of a simpler time before the terms “flatten the curve” and “essential workers” were part of our daily vernacular. If you’re lucky, your favorite restaurant is offering curbside pickup and delivery so you can still take a break from the constant drudgery of cooking three …
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Before Instagram influencing became an $8 billion a year industry, there was Gwyneth Paltrow, launching a second career and a newsletter to help regular people lead their best lives. And by regular people, I mean those with thousands of dollars of disposable income just splashing around their checking accounts looking for obscure products and services. …
The coronavirus news cycle runs 24-hours a day, 8 days a week. Every website, every channel, every newspaper filled with data, graphs, and projections. It’s overwhelming and exhausting. While this constant stream of pandemic-focused information just adds stress as we wait for infection curves to fall. But some websites are going a different, less science-based …
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If you’re jumping on every quarantine trend these days, then you’ve got more homemade bread than you know what to do with. There’s only so many sandwiches a person can eat in a day. Trust me, your homemade bread is begging for a glow-up into toast. As a midnight snack, toast just hits different. But …
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I’m not a real sports fan. Not in the know the players, know the statistics, know the coaches sort of way. I’m a sports fan in the way I get caught up in the spirit of the game. I also cherry-pick my teams. It’s not a calculated thought, but also not unlike most sports fans, …
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It’s warming up, and if you’re coping with quarantine by eating your feelings the way I am, you’re stocking up on ice cream along with baking banana bread and tending to your sourdough starter. Thankfully, grocery stores haven’t had to enforce purchasing limits for desserts yet, the way they have with toilet paper, meat products, …