Eliana Osborn

Look, Connect Four is not a good game. But it can be over quickly, which is pretty great.

What’s That Smell? Sniffing Out Weird House Odors

1. Write a damn letter.

84% of full professors in America are White. In case you were unsure, that does not match the overall makeup of the country or the student body.

I cried every single day of my life until I was 18 years old. I did not know this was abnormal.

Now that I’m a mother, I’m much more sympathetic to a woman who just couldn’t take it anymore. Not saying I’d leave my kids in a parking lot and hope for the best . . . just saying that I can understand the impulse.

I’m not a fan of repeating things over and over so that they lose their meaning. "Pledge: a solemn promise or agreement." It is that extra level, the solemnity, that makes me uncomfortable with casual usage.

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Perfectly Karaoke Or Lip Sync A Song: You may think this is less important than the other items on the list. You are wrong.

Size, like age and salary and whatever else, is just a number. Pretending numbers don’t measure things isn’t helpful. I’m 38 years old: That isn’t good or bad, but it IS different from being 18 or 50.