Mary is a freelance writer and editor. She's based in San Francisco, but lately, home is wherever her suitcase is. If you really are what you eat, she is at least 50% pizza.
Every since Taylor Swift & Co. brought us Swan Goals, we’ve gotten obsessed with cool pool swag all over again. (What’s not to love about looking like a celeb, feeling nostalgic for the good old days, and giving yourself the perfect excuse to show off your beach bod?) Summer has come and gone, but that in no […] More
Face it – the movies lied to you. Getting down and dirty rarely involves rose petals, steamy shower scenes, and perfect, interruption-free moments. In real life, sex is just as likely to be underwhelming or awkward. And sometimes, it’s really, really awkward. The good news is, when it happens to you, at least you don’t have […] More
Dogs are man’s best friend. We’ve all heard that before – at this point, it’s a well-worn cliche. But if the mark of true genius is being able to make something old feel new again, then whoever figured this out is bloody brilliant. Dog = best friend. Best friend = wingman. So, dog = wingman. But […] More
We have the Internet to thank for some of life’s most incredible modern conveniences, like instant communication, near-instant delivery, and constant unfettered access to cat videos. But net neutrality didn’t become such a hot topic because we’re all arguing over which awesome thing is the most awesome (and therefore most worthy of lightning-fast download speeds). […] More
Admit it – when you think etiquette, you probably think of stodgy old ladies gasping in horror over some ‘heathen’ reaching for the wrong fork at a formal dinner. Not a very relatable image. And outdated snippets of advice like this certainly don’t help the cause. But does that mean we should abandon good manners altogether? I’m […] More
Real talk—using apps to meet people is messy. From an inbox of aggressive pick-up lines to the occasional catfish, you have plenty of random candidates to weed through. And even then, you’re still guaranteed one of those awkward “you don’t look like your profile picture OR do anything you claim to do” first dates. So, where are all the cool, not crazy, singles? […] More
They say that love is blind. Or at least, they used to – does the cliche still apply in a post-Tinder age, when looks are often the first, if not only, criteria used for screening potential mates? …Um, yea. Because even if we don’t choose blindly, we’re apt to overlook some pretty big stuff when […] More
Fall is upon us, and that’s bad news for casual flings. Because with the weather getting colder, it just doesn’t make sense to play the field. Not only is it a waste of your holiday freedoms to stay in peak physical shape – Thanksgiving leftovers are a must – but who wants to trudge through two feet of snow […] More
From flash dances to scavenger hunts, marriage proposals have recently become the Internet’s cheesiest viral fad. Sometimes these horribly public confessions of love make you sob and dwell on single life woes, but most of the time they’re just eye-roll inducing cringe-fests. Here’s to the proposals that made us want to swear off true love […] More
Everybody loves food. As a human, you kind of have to if you care about your survival at all. So naturally, there’s no bad day that can’t be cured with cupcakes. Pizza makes hangovers magically disappear. And between true love and a really good burrito, we know what we’d choose. But you know what else […] More
We all know the feeling. Come 4 p.m, when lunch is but a memory, and dinner seems so close, yet so extremely far away, it hits you. It’s that potent combination of hunger and inexplicable rage – hangriness. And it makes monsters of us all. Here are the 14 things that happen when it’s that time […] More
After every long, cold winter, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel. The best part of the whole year. Festival season. It’s like Christmas, your birthday, and spring break rolled into one. If you’re that sort of person. As any seasoned vet knows, when you drop the big bucks on a ticket, you’re not […] More
