Taylor Swift is engaged to Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, and the internet is chock full of hot takes on her relationship, her upcoming marriage, and the takeaways from both. Keyboard warriors are busy making sense of it all – “Kelce is making a huge mistake,” “Swift is a trad wife now,” “the
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Something has gone wrong with the way we work. A recent survey by Wondr Health found that most American workers suffer from “time poverty.” Psychologist Mark Travers defines “time poverty” as “experiencing a lack of sufficient time to fulfill responsibilities, pursue interests or engage in activities that contribute to one’s well-being due to various demands on [one’s] time.”
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Hollywood has long been in the business of minimizing marriage. Every sitcom I’ve ever seen must, it seems, regularly joke about how marriage is a prison, a trap, a why-did-we-ever-get-married bad idea. So it is in “The Roses,” a new release starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman. In “The Roses,” we are thrust immediately into a
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Are you an oikophile or an oikophobe? Conservative philosopher Roger Scruton (1944-2020) coined these two words from the Greek oikos, meaning household, home, or place. But Scruton broadened this meaning to include culture. Accordingly, oikophiles are those who love their homes and the culture passed down through generations. Oikophobes may love their private homes, but disdain, or even
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Just as Generation Z is scraping the “millennial grey” paint off the natural wood in their homes, Cracker Barrel gave itself the sad beige makeover nobody asked for. Nearly every McDonald’s has received this makeover in the last decade. While style and decor changes across generations are normal, the leap from what the kids of
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On a midsummer’s morning, a close friend and I met for coffee. Anne is married, retired, and the mother of four and grandmother of several. Although we talk often by phone, nearly two years had passed since we’d last seen each other, and we’d both, well, softened with age. For a while, we sipped our
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