Category: Fun
Add a little more joy to your weekday with posts designed to bring out the fun in your life, featuring things to do, easy party ideas, games and more
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The Most Fun Workout You’ll Have This Summer
I’m not someone who looks forward to exercising. In fact, I dread it to the point that an hour before every OrangeTheory class I took during my 6-month run with it, I’d come up with a litany of excuses why I couldn’t possibly hit the gym that night: I’d just eaten, I’m too tired, I’m…
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What’s Inside Fab Fit Fun’s Summer 2018 Box
It’s hard to scroll Instagram without coming across an influencer — or an ad — promoting Fab Fit Fun’s subscription boxes. After trying Birchbox for nearly two years (and with friends who’ve extensively reviewed other brands), I always wondered: Can it live up to the hype? Do you really get more than $50 worth of…
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A 5-Step Sad Desk Makeover
Whenever I move into a new office, the first thing I have to do is organize the space to make use of every inch available. While making sure that it feels like some place I’d actually want to be — not a sterile cube. (Yeah, I’m THAT person who goes into full desk makeover mode…
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Tiffany Blue Taxis & Food Trucks Take Over New York
In any other city, traffic would stop. People everywhere would gawk. And to some degree, they did. But in a city like New York, a girl leaping from robin’s egg blue taxi to robin’s egg blue taxi is, well, just another day in New York. The bizarre is all around you, all the time.…
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Copycat Levain Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies
When you visit New York, there are a few musts: Seeing the Statue of Liberty (even if it’s from a distance, courtesy of the free Staten Island Ferry rides), pummeling your way through Times Square, taking a photo as if you’re pinching the spire of the Empire State Building in your hands — and eating…
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The Strange Delights Of ‘Tomorrowland’ Architecture
As a kid, I bolted toward Tomorrowland at Disney World. Even though there were hardly any rides there that appealed to me, I relished in the kitschy, retro-futurism on display there. There was something so bizarrely fascinating about the architecture to me. It was hopeful and energetic, yet rooted in nostalgia. (Nowadays, that section of…
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10 Date Ideas Under $10
Dinner, movies, bar, repeat. Certain dates are tried and true, sure, but after a while, they can start to feel stale. If you’re looking for something different (and affordable!), try these date ideas. And, when you’re done, leave a comment with one we should add to this list. Or seven. We’ll take ’em all.
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5 Enchanting Shops ‘Wander Society’ Members Will Love
When you’re stuck in a same-old, same-old rut (or just feeling society’s pressures to conform to a certain mold of how a person ‘should’ be), there’s nothing more refreshing than a little escape that helps you see the world through a new lens. I think that’s why the Wander Society took off; it encouraged you…
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Trying Something New: Going “Bro-Country” For A Night
There’s a dog on the stage, singers are swilling whiskey straight from the bottle, and my husband and I are definitely the only people in this 30,000-person arena who don’t know a single word to the songs they’re singing. In fact, we’ve never heard most of them before. We don’t even like country music. At…
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IT Is About to Get Real with This Pennywise-Inspired Costume
In 1990, Tim Curry starred as Pennywise the Dancing Clown in a mini-series adaptation of Stephen King’s novel It. And thanks to this film, Millennials grew up somewhat-to-completely horrified of Clowns. Now, 27 years later Pennywise (AKA It) is back with the promise to terrify the next generation’s youth. It feeds on the fears of…
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