I’ve always loved leisurely browsing the aisles of a nice, brightly lit grocery store. One thing I hate about living in NYC is the grocery shopping experience. When I’m shopping in a nice grocery store, I feel on edge because it’s usually pretty crowded—either because of the sheer number of people, the limited square footage, or some combination thereof. In some stores, I also feel like I’m dodging store employees as they restock the shelves, and fellow shoppers who want…

I’ve been rereading Watership Down, the classic by Richard Adams. It’s a story about rabbits, but it’s also about much more than that. A part of me is always worried about revisiting an old classic, since I’m afraid that I’ll notice that it just isn’t as magical as I remembered. In the case of Watership Down, I had no reason to be concerned. I was happy to see that my friends Hazel, Fiver, Bigwig, and the rest of the clan were still just as lively the second…

On a recent trip to Sephora, I picked up a small travel size of IT Cosmetics CC+ cream (yes, I’m a sucker for browsing through those little product bins while waiting in line). This product bills itself as “Your Skin But Better” (and it even trademarked that phrase). After taking a quick scan through the massive ingredient list, I saw that it contained physical sunscreen ingredients (a mix of zinc oxide and titanium dioxide), so it offered full protection against the full…