Columnists
Friday, April 10, 2026 · Temple Terrace
The Farmer's Carry Will Fix Your Posture Better Than Any Brace Ever Could
Stop slouching at your desk. A single exercise—literally just holding heavy things and walking—rewires your entire postural system in weeks.
The State Park Nobody Visits Is Your Best Kept Weekend
There's a state park in every region that somehow flies under the radar while everyone else crowds the famous one an hour away—and I found mine this season.
Friday, April 10, 2026
Cast Iron Won't Ruin You, But Seasoning It Badly Might
Your grandmother's skillet isn't magic—it's just iron that's been fed better than you've been feeding yours. Here's how to actually build a non-stick surface that lasts.
Friday, April 10, 2026
How to Cut a Perfect Dovetail Joint With Nothing but a Saw, a Pencil, and Stubborn Determination
Dovetails look like dark magic until you realize they're just geometry and patience. Here's how to cut your first one this weekend without spending $200 on fancy tools.
Friday, April 10, 2026
The Narrows at Zion Are Crowded as Hell, So Try the Virgin River Walk Instead
Everyone's photographing The Narrows. Meanwhile, the actual river—quieter, weirder, and just as stunning—is waiting five minutes down the road where you can actually hear yourself think.
Friday, April 10, 2026
Fall Stripers Are Running Hot — Here's How to Load the Boat Before the Cold Kills It
October striped bass are absolutely feral, and the window is closing fast. If you're not on the water at dawn this week, you're leaving money on the dock.
Friday, April 10, 2026
The Brutalist is Three Hours of Unhinged Perfection, and Critics Are Too Chicken to Admit It
Brady Corbet's maximalist epic should be exhausting. Instead, it's the most alive film in years—and everyone's pretending it's just "very long" because they're afraid of not understanding it.
Friday, April 10, 2026
The Live Music Industry's Obsession With "Immersive Experiences" Is Ruining Everything
Concert venues are adding projectors, fog machines, and "interactive elements" to every show. Stop. We paid for a band, not a theme park.
Friday, April 10, 2026
The Curious Case of People Who Forgot How to Be Normal
A man sued over a sofa, a king invented a sport nobody wanted to play, and somewhere in Nebraska, the law still technically forbids ice cream on cherry pie. Welcome back to reality.
Friday, April 10, 2026
The Surprisingly Bitter Underbelly of "Cozy Girl Summer" (And Why Everyone's Getting It Wrong)
Everyone's romanticizing quiet productivity and candlelit book nooks this season. But this trend isn't wholesome—it's just burnout with better marketing.
Friday, April 10, 2026
The Art of Useful Ignorance: Why Not Knowing Everything Makes You Smarter
We've been taught that knowledge is power, but philosophers have long understood something we've forgotten—there's a particular kind of wisdom in knowing what *not* to study.
Friday, April 10, 2026
The Fed's Real Problem Isn't Inflation—It's That Nobody Trusts Them Anymore
Jerome Powell spent two years telling Americans prices would fall on their own. They didn't. Now his credibility is the casualty, and that matters more than any interest rate.
Friday, April 10, 2026
The TikTok Ballet Problem Nobody's Talking About
Ballet is having a viral moment, but the internet's obsession with impossibly perfect pirouettes is making dance worse, not better.
Friday, April 10, 2026
Why Haiku Breaks Your Brain (In the Best Way)
A 17-syllable poem shouldn't make you feel like you've been struck by lightning, but haiku does—and now you can understand why.
Friday, April 10, 2026
The One Phrase That Actually Stops Your Brain From Spiraling
You already know "just think positive" doesn't work. Here's what does—and why your nervous system finally listens when you say it right.
Friday, April 10, 2026
The Quiet Luxury Backlash Has Arrived, and It's Loud
Understated elegance is officially dead, murdered by the very people who preached it. The fashion pendulum is swinging hard toward maximalism, and honestly? It's about time.
Friday, April 10, 2026
The Brutalist Was Three Hours of Watching a Man Be Mad at Architecture, and I Loved Every Minute of It
Brady Corbet's epic demolishes the blockbuster formula by refusing to give you a single moment of relief—and somehow that's exactly what cinema needs right now.
Friday, April 10, 2026
My Boyfriend Won't Stop Texting His Ex—And She Won't Stop Replying
He says they're "just friends." She sends him thirst-trap photos. One reader is losing her mind—and wondering if she's the crazy one for minding.
Friday, April 10, 2026
Stop Pretending the Viral Dance Trend Is Actually Good
TikTok's latest choreography sensation is technically impressive and spiritually empty, and we need to talk about what we're actually celebrating when we share it 10 million times.
Friday, April 10, 2026
I Quit My Job to Start a Business and Now I'm Eating Cereal for Dinner at 11 PM
Your startup is failing quietly, your savings are evaporating, and nobody warns you about the psychological toll. Here's what to do when the dream looks more like a nightmare.
Friday, April 10, 2026
I Make Good Money But Keep Blowing It All—Where Does It Go?
A reader earning solid income feels like money vanishes into thin air every month. We traced the leak, and yeah, some of it's embarrassing.
Friday, April 10, 2026
My Kid Refuses to Do Homework and I'm Losing It—So I Stopped Making Him
A parent writes in about their teenager's academic spiral. Here's the uncomfortable truth nobody wants to hear.
Friday, April 10, 2026
The Guy Who Won't Stop Talking About His New Supplement Stack
A reader's gained 15 pounds since his buddy got obsessed with fitness influencers. He's tired of the unsolicited advice—but worried he's being a bad friend by shutting it down.
Friday, April 10, 2026
My Teenager Won't Stop Lying About Small Stuff—Should I Worry This Means She'll Become a Criminal?
A parent discovers their 14-year-old has been fibbing about homework and friend drama. Mama Mae explains why this particular flavor of lying is actually normal—and what actually matters.
Friday, April 10, 2026
I Panic-Sold My Index Funds During the Dip. Now What?
One reader admits to doing the thing everyone warns against—and wants to know if they're permanently wrecked or just temporarily stupid.
Friday, April 10, 2026
The Fed Just Admitted It Overshot, and Nobody's Talking About What Comes Next
Powell's pivot away from rate hikes signals Washington expects a softer landing. What they won't say is how messy the dismount could get.
Friday, April 10, 2026
My Husband Thinks Our Sex Life Is "Fine." I Think It's Dead. Who Gets to Decide?
After five years of marriage and two kids, she wants passion back. He wants to know why she's suddenly "complaining." Here's the thing nobody tells you about mismatched desire.
Friday, April 10, 2026
The Dangerous Comfort of Certainty — Why Doubt Might Be Your Most Honest Friend
We celebrate people who "know what they believe," but history's wisest voices have always been the ones comfortable admitting they don't know much at all.
Friday, April 10, 2026
Why Shakespeare's Sonnets Still Hit Like Heartbreak (Even When You Read Them in 2025)
The 154 sonnets aren't dusty museum pieces—they're proof that human obsession, jealousy, and longing haven't changed in 400 years. Here's why one particular sonnet rewires your brain.
Friday, April 10, 2026
Why Your Affirmations Keep Failing (And What Actually Works Instead)
You've been doing affirmations wrong. Here's the one shift that makes them stick—and it has nothing to do with saying them louder in the mirror.
Friday, April 10, 2026