What are your favorite romantic comedies?

Alex and I are celebrating our fifth anniversary this Friday. Our wedding simultaneously feels like yesterday and a million years ago. So m...

The Theory of Everything

Have you seen the trailer for The Theory of Everything, the new movie about physicist Stephen Hawking and his first wife Jane? It comes out ...

The key to a good marriage

Psychologist John Gottman has a crazy party trick: He can watch a married couple interacting and then predict with 94 percent certainty whet...

Single-tasking is the new multitasking

Earlier this month, I was riding my bike across the Brooklyn Bridge, when my phone fell out of my pocket. Rats! So I was forced to spend the...

Why we sleep together

This morning, I was struck by this Atlantic article , which asks why we share beds. "Sleep, much like running a marathon or chewing foo...

On happiness

The other day, I read this passage on Pinterest (where else?), and it has stuck with me... I actually attack the concept of happiness. The i...

Reading: How the Internet Destroyed Tom Cruise

This morning, I read a fascinating article about how the internet killed Tom Cruise. "The first star to stumble in front of the knives...

The trick of life

This article in the New York Times was so touching—did you see it? It’s written by a man who was struggling to finish a novel and suddenly ...