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A reflection of My Year of Rest and Relaxation

My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh is so commonly listed under standard lists of edgy or dark fiction recommendations that when I first picked it up a couple of years ago, I thought there was no way I would enjoy it.

Pebbling our way through an autistic Valentine’s Day

Love often is an explosion of emotions — hearts racing, butterflies in the stomach, and grand romantic gestures. But for autistic individuals, love can look a little different.

Sweet savings

With it being Valentine’s season, it means giving to your loved ones. This time of year can bring happiness and positivity, but it can also bring an empty wallet.

Grounds found

Foodies, I found the perfect café, and I’m obsessed with everything about it: the aesthetics, the menu, the vibe. It feels like home.

The Grammynomenon

I usually think the Grammys are superficial, and they don’t really determine the worth of an individual’s art. I think of the Grammys as something that turns a person’s art into a product.

Six more weeks of winter

Yesterday, I experienced the joy of making it to Gobbler’s Knob to witness Punxsutawney Phil’s prognostication of the meteorological happenings for the next six weeks.

Tragic love with The Broken Wings

The Broken Wings by Kahlil Gibran is a poetic classic love story from the early 1900s. It is a short book, under 150 pages, about a love between a doomed couple.

The fleeting, or infinite, traps of time perception and autism

As we know from the many, many weeks of articles in this column, autism spectrum disorder (ASD) combines differences in cognition and social interaction with fundamental aspects of perception, including the experience of time.