The Study That Made Me Question My Marriage (In the Best Way) I first heard about the “sleep divorce” thing on my phone at 2 AM, which is honestly the perfect time to make life-changing decisions. My husband was snoring, I was staring at the ceiling doing that thing where you calculate how many hours …
The Experiment Begins (With Reasonable Skepticism) Three weeks ago, I sat at my kitchen table with a cup of coffee that had gone lukewarm and a half-formed idea that felt equal parts curiosity and mild self-sabotage. I had just finished another therapy session where I left feeling like I’d explained my thoughts but not quite …
Why We Write When We Don’t Know What We’re Doing I started keeping a notebook because I was tired of having the same three conversations with myself over and over. You know the kind: the one where you’re lying in bed at 2 AM convinced you’ve figured something out, then you wake up and it’s …
The Thing I Noticed Three years ago, if someone at a dinner party mentioned taking Ozempic for weight loss, the conversation would stop. There would be that specific kind of silence where everyone becomes very interested in their appetizer. Now? People talk about it the way they talk about their antidepressants or their sleep struggles. …
The Thing That Made Me Stop Scrolling I was halfway through my third coffee on a Tuesday morning when I saw the number: 5.1 years. That’s what Bryan Johnson’s epigenetic age was tracking as of early 2025, compared to his actual age of 47. The internet was, predictably, losing its mind. Not just losing it …