Whenever I move into a new office, the first thing I have to do is organize the space to make use of every inch available. While making sure that it feels like some place I’d actually want to be — not a sterile cube. (Yeah, I’m THAT person who goes into full desk makeover mode…

  In any other city, traffic would stop. People everywhere would gawk. And to some degree, they did. But in a city like New York, a girl leaping from robin’s egg blue taxi to robin’s egg blue taxi is, well, just another day in New York. The bizarre is all around you, all the time.…

When you visit New York, there are a few musts: Seeing the Statue of Liberty (even if it’s from a distance, courtesy of the free Staten Island Ferry rides), pummeling your way through Times Square, taking a photo as if you’re pinching the spire of the Empire State Building in your hands — and eating…

As a kid, I bolted toward Tomorrowland at Disney World. Even though there were hardly any rides there that appealed to me, I relished in the kitschy, retro-futurism on display there. There was something so bizarrely fascinating about the architecture to me. It was hopeful and energetic, yet rooted in nostalgia. (Nowadays, that section of…

When you’re stuck in a same-old, same-old rut (or just feeling society’s pressures to conform to a certain mold of how a person ‘should’ be), there’s nothing more refreshing than a little escape that helps you see the world through a new lens. I think that’s why the Wander Society took off; it encouraged you…

There’s a dog on the stage, singers are swilling whiskey straight from the bottle, and my husband and I are definitely the only people in this 30,000-person arena who don’t know a single word to the songs they’re singing. In fact, we’ve never heard most of them before. We don’t even like country music. At…