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10 Ways Volunteering Will Change Your Life
I live in New York. I’ve been here for 6 years and have always been meaning to volunteer over the holidays. This year, I finally got off my ass and made it happen. Here’s what I’ve gotten out of it,...
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Can a Dude Survive 100 Classes of Barre?
There I was, in the middle of a ballet studio, sweat pouring off my forehead, legs quivering in fast-approaching muscle failure, surrounded by 15 women infinitely more flexible than I. There was...
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Everything I Needed to Know About Kindness I Learned at JFK
I was at JFK airport again the other day—the fifth time this month—and despite really needing to get to my destination, my flight got canceled. It happens. Weather in NYC, massive delays, etc. But it...
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Eight Signs You are Being Despicable in Your Divorce
Ok, you’re getting divorced. You’re not the first, and you certainly won’t be the last. It’s certainly not going to be the most pleasant thing you’ve ever gone through. Because you’re splitting up...
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How to Not Be a Jerk at Your Ex Girlfriend’s Wedding
First, when you break up, don’t be an emotional jerk about it and over-react. Handle it delicately, diplomatically, maturely. Yes, it hurts that she ended it. The blow is softened by her insistence...
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10 Ways New York Made Me a Better Man
I’ve lived in a lot of cities–LA, Boston, Atlanta, Seattle, Portland, Sydney Australia, as well as about 10 small New England towns you’ve never heard of. While all have afforded me various life...
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My Favorite Thing About a Woman is Her Scars
As a boy, I was always told girls are made of sugar & spice and everything nice. The narrative continued as I got older: …and manicured nails, pearl earrings, meticulous makeup, and an ironed...
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Don’t Rush The Elevator
A little while ago, I tried an experiment. It was all motivated by a pattern I noticed in myself: As a classic New Yorker, I’m always in a hurry. If I see a cab coming, I thrust myself into the street...
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In Praise of the Graceful Dismount
People, we’ve got a problem. We don’t know how to end relationships gracefully. From the epidemic of “ghosting” to excessively cruel and vengeful behavior in the act breaking up, there’s a decided lack...
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Advice to My Overly-Uptight 16 Year-Old Self
You’ve got your eyes on the prize, you’re hard-working, you’re honest, you’re aspiring for greatness in everything you do. You’re wearing your big ol’ romantic heart on your sleeve. A good life will...
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The Importance of Throwing Things Away
The 150 magazines in storage. The clothes we haven’t worn in years but still, think we might need. The ski boots we wore in college but keep around for nostalgia. The relationships with people who’ve...
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6 Reasons Every Guy Should Try Stand-up Comedy
You’ve got to keep fighting – you’ve got to risk your life every six months to stay alive. – Elia Kazan I’ve done a lot of scary things in my life–skydiving from 11,000 ft, ski racing at 85 mph,...
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When Women Make the First Move
No, this was not online dating. She knew me from the “real” world. Turns out we were both at the same wedding a while back, but she was there with another guy at the time. But she remembered me and...
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12 Reasons Why I Refuse to Watch The Bachelor
You could literally put the camera on a pile of cow manure for 43 minutes a night and it would have more charm, integrity, and insight than this cultural atrocity. But since a lot of the world is...
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Dear Teenage Boys Worried They’re Not Getting Laid
Sorry, boys, this is not a list of ways to turn it around This is a treatise you shouldn’t care so much about it. I get it: Right now you think you’re the only teen in history to not lose his...
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What Someone is Actually Telling You When They Ghost You
Dear person I recently gave my phone number to/ slept with/ dated for a while/ or was in a relationship with, then ghosted. Here’s what I actually said to you, by not saying anything: To begin with,...
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Why ‘I Didn’t Mean to Hurt You’ is Always a BS Excuse
There’s one excuse we’ve all heard and seen a million times in life. Either in movies, our friends’ relationships, or in our own lives. An attempt to evade blame that goes: I never meant to hurt you....
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What a Guy is Thinking When He Breaks Up with You Out of Nowhere
Sorry, ladies, we men aren’t good at this. We don’t exactly love conflict. (At least not the verbal kind–though we love battling for anything if it involves work or sports.) So we don’t always speak up...
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Why Your Future Husband Might be a Lousy First Date
I was eating in a restaurant in New York a few months back and was sitting next to a couple I could tell was on a first date. Things seemed to be going “ok,” but not a ton of sparks. At some point, the...
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The 17 Most Offensive Things About Trump’s “Mask” Tweet
1) It took him 109 days to admit what scientists, doctors and children everywhere had already long-since embraced.2) He mocked wearing masks and resisted wearing one for months, even in places that...
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