Health Trends

As someone who spends all day staring at screens for work and all night scrolling through social media before hitting the hay, I’m not exactly settin

Turmeric lattes, facial gua sha, yoga, burning sage — the modern wellness industry in the U.S. borrows heavily from the ancient traditions of cultures f

I’ve been having trouble falling asleep. I don’t think that’s out of the ordinary, in general but also right now, given the current state

People tend to dole out a lot of unsolicited advice to pregnant people, and sometimes it can be hard to cut through the noise in order to make the right de

My first New York City apartment was pretty dismal. My room could barely fit a full bed and a dresser, and the walls badly needed a fresh coat of paint. Bu

I’ve never had a good experience with weed. It’s sad, really, to sit and watch funny stoner comedies I can’t relate to, to see my friends joyfully sh

After initial fears that even vaccinated people could carry and spread coronavirus, a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggest

The strawberries. The strawberries are an issue, Julie Blackburn thought. It was March 2020, and a plethora of household staples had already become hard to

In a world dominated by capitalism, it’s only a matter of time before an organic social justice movement is co-opted by brands — manipulated, commodifi

Looking for the “bright side” of a pandemic that has killed more than half a million Americans and 2.6 million people worldwide can feel… Pollyan

Lately I’ve been structuring my whole day in Google Calendar, dedicating each neatly segmented block of time to writing a story, exercising, and even thi

The “baby boom” predicted at the beginning of the pandemic is now widely acknowledged to have been a baby bust. Though there was an assumption that peo

P.volve may have entered the home-workout scene back in 2017 but now, in 2021 (as we squat it out in front of our couches), it’s trending stronger th

It’s 2021, and we’re not going to dwell on 2020. But: It will certainly not be remembered as the year we all slept like babies. Babies with col