The internet has no shortage of recipe ideas—including several here—but lately, I’ve been on a make-and-repeat rut. Most weeks include some kind of tacos or burrito bowls, spaghetti with a veggie-laden meat sauce, a grilled chicken something-or-other. It streamlined my grocery shopping, but it was getting a little too predictable. And scrolling the web for…

A newly opened abandoned mall?! How can that be? The American Dream in New Jersey isn’t an abandoned mall at all. In fact, it’s the third-largest shopping megaplex in the U.S., just behind the King of Prussia Mall and Mall of America. To call it a mall is practically an understatement: It houses Nickelodeon Universe…

Now that the coronavirus pandemic creeps into its third month, many of us are starting to talk about our time in self-isolation in phases: “Remember when we were all obsessed with Tiger King?” And “Oh, that was during my eating-cookie-dough-straight-from-the-tube phase.” That sort of thing. We’ve all turned to different things to entertain, distract, educate…

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…

Sneaking off to the zoo isn’t exactly an easy (or feasible) way to spend your lunch break, especially when that zoo happens to be in Sydney, Australia — requiring, at the very least, a boat ride to get to the Taronga Zoo, if you live in the city. Or, if you’re like me and live…

Confession: For the past four years that I’ve been writing down my annual goals, “complete a novel” has been one of the first things listed. Yet I’ve never actually completed one. I’ve come close, sure, but I always let other projects (or work, or binge-watching Netflix) get in the way, and before long, I’ve lost…

Some cities are great to visit, and you can’t wait to go back again and again. Certain cities, though, make you come alive. They’re places you could see yourself living in one day; or at the very least, regularly vacationing to. You just feel good there, like you belong; like this place gets you. At…