You’re sitting there, trying to hit a deadline on a chaotic Tuesday morning, when a neon-yellow envelope lands on your desk like a ticking time bomb. Or worse, the Slack notification pings. It’s the “Birthday Alert.” Suddenly, everyone is looking at you to write something profound in a card that’s already crowded with twenty other … Read more
I was standing in the card aisle of a local store last Tuesday, staring at a sea of glitter and aggressive cursive fonts. You know the feeling. You pick up a card, read a four-paragraph poem about “the winds of destiny,” and think, This sounds absolutely nothing like how I talk. Sometimes, we try so … Read more
I was sitting in my car the other morning, balancing a lukewarm latte in one hand and my phone in the other, when the notification popped up. It was a calendar alert for a college friend I hadn’t spoken to in nearly a year. You know that feeling, right? That sudden jolt of “Oh no, … Read more