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Ever since I’ve been a teenager, I’ve had a soft spot for a good romance. On a lazy Sunday afternoon, or a Saturday night in alone, you’ll frequently find me curled up on the sofa binging on rom-coms. I’ll devour reality shows where couples find love against carefully-scripted odds. I adore hearing about celebrity matches, and […] More
It’s worth noting that most of this evidence is anecdotal at this stage, but there are enough reported cases that medical professionals are saying a loss of smell or taste should be considered a symptom of COVID-19. “We propose that these symptoms be added to the list of screening tools for possible COVID-19 infection,” reads a […] More
Twenty-one days at home sounds like an eternity. And the government has (finally!) been pretty clear: no walking the dog, no going for a run, no taking the kids to the park. Fast forward a week and popping down to your local Spar to buy tampons will never have felt so exhilarating! So we’ve created […] More
I was born in a suburb of Chicago, raised in a (different) suburb of Chicago, and then spent four magical years in Fort Worth, Texas studying journalism and public relations. I spent every summer of college working at a camp in Michigan (also magical)—but knew I wanted to return home to Chicagoland when I graduated […] More
One of the hallmark symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder is intrusive thoughts. All my life, I’ve felt their constant bombardment. My mind is like a crowded room, and the voices are all shouting different things. I now see this inner monologue on the faces of everyone around me (who of course, are standing more than a metre […] More
There’s no sugarcoating the fact that allergies are an absolute pain in the you-know-what. And when the change in season rolls around, allergy sufferers have to deal with weeks and weeks of red, itchy eyes and plenty of sneezing. And it seems like allergy season just keeps getting worse, right?! Well, the severity of allergy […] More
If you use dating apps or have ever been on a date in the 21st century, you’re probably exhausted from swiping left, and dodging “u up?” from fuckboys or “hey” from boring matches. You don’t feel like you’re too picky (it’s called having standards!!) and when the average dating pool looks like overgrown frat boys […] More
When I had envisioned myself becoming a “responsible adult that cleans regularly,” the visual I had in mind was of the Monica Geller variety, who washed dishes in a wedding dress, made DIY magical cleaning solutions, and enjoyed vacuuming her vacuums. I had achieved that to some degree, until the current events were upon us […] More
