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Why Believing in God Seems Easier (and Maybe That’s the Point)
Let’s be honest – believing in God is the ultimate life hack. You get meaning, comfort, community casseroles, and a celestial customer service line for when things go wrong. Meanwhile,…
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Why EDM Legends Will Skip Zagreb Forever (Thanks, Fair Fest)
So, my husband and I did what any sane EDM-loving couple would do: we bought our overpriced tickets (more on that later), slipped into something vaguely party oriented, and headed…
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Am I Superficial If I’m Not Attracted to Men Under 170 cm?
Let’s get something exactly 169.5 cm tall and slightly hunched out of the way: not being attracted to shorter men does not make me superficial. It just makes me… biologically…
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Why Misery Loves Clicks
World’s on Fire, But At Least I’m Caught Up In 2025, as we wobble through life juggling laundry, existential dread, and an uncharacteristic obsession with gluten-free croutons, something remarkable has…
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From Wine to Weights: My Accidental Fit Mom Era
I used to think “sleep deprivation” was just a hangover with better branding – something achieved only at festivals, regrettable nights out, or when binge-watching TV shows with subtitles (because…
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Half a Million Ways to Say “Madness”
Thompson, Zagreb, and Me (Not There, Obviously) Right now, as I write this, Zagreb is swelling. The Hippodrome is a living organism, a throbbing nationalist jellyfish with stage lights and…
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I Hate Summer (and I’m Not Sorry About It)
The sun starts rising before 5 a.m., and I feel personally attacked. There it is again: the bright, smug face of summer. No one asked for it, and yet it…
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No, We’re Not Taking Our Toddler to the Seaside. We’re Going to Tomorrowland. Twice.
In a move that has shocked boomer relatives, kindergarten moms, and Instagram’s algorithm alike, my husband and I are heading to Tomorrowland. For both weekends. And we’re doing it without…
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My Thirties: A Redemption Arc No One Asked For
Or, how I accidentally became someone who owns matching workout sets, by Erika Matic. In my twenties, I was an unpaid intern for chaos. I drank like Prohibition was looming,…
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Three and Unstoppable: A Birthday Celebration of Our Little Raver
There are moments in life that force you to confront the tender, unvarnished truths of parenthood. For us, that moment arrived with a confetti cannon’s worth of glitter and the…