My earliest memory of Nowruz was decorating eggs with my family at our dining room table. I was six years old, and we used a cheap egg-dyeing kit — the kind you find at drugstores, with concentrated watercolour tablets and wire dippers that bend under the weight of the eggs. […]
In high school, Nia Wromas became depressed because of an emotionally abusive relationship. She tried to open up to her parents, but they couldn’t seem to hear her. They’d dismissively say she was just “sad,” and blame it on other factors, even going as far as to say, “You wouldn’t […]
If you haven’t already heard: Sitting is pretty terrible for you. According to research, sitting for more than eight hours a day without physical activity is harmful for your body and studies have compared extended sitting to smoking. And yet, for most of us working in corporate Britain, our lives […]
LOWELL – MARCH 17: Children carry “stop the hate” and “Asian lives matter” as they walk around Clemente Park in Lowell, Mass. during a vigil held for the victims of the shooting spree in Atlanta at Clemente Park Lowell, MA on March 17, 2021. Eight people including six Asian women […]
If you’re the type of lockdown dresser who’s embraced inside shoes and outdoor house slippers, UGG’s just-released collaboration with London-based designer Molly Goddard is for you. The three-style collection, which first debuted at the designer’s London Fashion Week presentation in September, includes platform clogs — which come in red, green, […]
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… Pollyanna-ish, to say the least. Still, as we pass the one-year anniversary of the World Health Organization declaring COVID-19 a pandemic and the vaccine rollout continues […]
A decade ago, luxury fashion brands didn’t even acknowledge the existence of sales, let alone participate in the resale industry; brands would rather burn excess goods before selling them at consignment prices. But thanks to the rising popularity of secondhand shopping in the last few years, as well as consumer […]
When it comes to shopping, many of us have become used to finding what we want at the click of a finger and having it delivered if not instantaneously, then within a few working days. How much thought is given to the life of the item? Where it came from […]
Aries season always seems to bring out the fire in all of us (but that might be my Aries sun talking). The weather is turning warmer, and there’s a special electricity in the air as the new astrological year begins once again. Sure, we set resolutions (or not) in January. […]
How do you know you belong? For my eight-year-old self, it was simple: Did I have friends who sat with me at lunch? Was there a Power Ranger who looked like me? Did I get to eat at McDonald’s on my birthday? Gratefully, thankfully, those juvenile hallmarks of belonging were […]
