Month: January 2022

clean shampoos: your rundown

Are ‘better for you’ shampoos actually better for your hair? Do ‘clean’ shampoos actually clean your hair, or condition it well? These are some of

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sublimation

Water flows downhill. Everybody knows that. It condenses and falls from the sky, gathers into rivulets and streams, then raging channels, and finally the open

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untethered, all the way

My hands fly to the armrests at my side as I brace myself for another wave. The metal tube I’ve been inside of for the

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take a minute

The end of the year predictably brings existential contemplation, Spotify Wrapped and Instagram Reels with tiny flashes of the last 12 months. I set out

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a heroine’s journey

The hero’s journey is a well-known narrative structure that has historically involved a man who embarks on an adventure, learns a lesson, uses that lesson

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easy, tiger

What does it mean, to say the moment isn’t right? At different times, people may say it means their heart wasn’t in it, they were

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to the point

Outside it’s as though there must be two suns – one all heat, and the other all light. On the other side of the door,

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down the road now

  Even in Kyoto— hearing the cuckoo’s cry— I long for Kyoto. ~Matsuo Bashō (trans. Robert Hass) To me, there’s no better place, but people

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