Transitioning into Marriage

I have not been married very long yet. However, I’ve already discovered the first year of marriage is challenging. I was never the sort to expect marriage to be a never-ending fairytale, but even with realistic expectations, I found getting married way more of a strain than I expected. I don’t regret getting married, and

The Importance of Dating

What does “we’re dating” really mean? I wondered this a bit myself in high school. I was “dating” someone, but we did not really go on dates. Mostly we spent time together at lunch and a school club we were both a part of, just sort of hanging out, often with our other friends there

Gender Trends and Outliers

There are differences between the sexes. I learned recently from a video from a documentary called Boys and Girls are Different with John Stossel that even as newborns boys and girls respond differently to things. For example, newborn boy infants tend to startle more easily. How they play tends to be different too. I had

Family Culture

I have been told that I have an accent before. I have never quite been able to figure out where I picked up this accent. It’s not from the rural Ohio town I grew up in, and it seems to surprise people who notice it. The way we talk, dress, act, and believe say a

Families and Roles

There are a lot of different ways to think about families. One major way is to think of family as a system. In a system, different entities interact with each other in a certain way. Each part of the system has a role to play. Sometimes there are also subsystems where small subsets of the

An Argument For Large Families

I am the youngest of six kids. Considering that the fertility rate (fertility rate meaning the average number of children per female) in the U.S in 2020 was 1.6 according to The World Bank, my family is generally considered large. I’ve always liked being from a large family. My siblings are amazing. They’re artistic, intelligent,

My Dad’s Homemade Soft-Crust Pizza

This is kind of The Recipe for me. It’s the one my Dad always did as a special treat for most Sunday dinners, when guest came over, for birthdays and holidays. This is the recipe I serve my relatives in town every other Sunday, now that I don’t live at home, and the recipe my

Building Confidence and Building Ads

Clean & Clear did an ad campaign called ‘See the Real Me’ focusing on promoting confidence in teenage girls. The campaign had a series of mini documentaries spotlighting girls who had done something different or unexpected. It started in the U.S., but expanding to other countries, including India. In India the focus tended to be

Dissecting a Magazine

Intro Learning the basics of type and photos is difficult. So, for now, let’s use an example to explain a few basic conepts. This article is from a magazine called Prima Baby. This particular two-page spread was tweeted by Beth Sheard. Her post can be read at https://twitter.com/bethsheard1/status/529236574475943936. Prima Baby has an active Twitter presence.

Design Dissection

In 2019, Salesforce did a campaign called, “We Bring Companies and Customers Together.” This campaign was built to show what Salesforce actually does as they found knowledge on this lacking. The campaign was down by their in-house creative team according to CNBC in their article about the campaign entitled, “Salesforce launches new ads that explain