Read my story at Cool Hunting For years, the tequila category has moved toward becoming the next captivating collector’s market while the liquid has maintained its image as a party staple. No brand embodies this more than Patrón. The well-known, big-box brand has a history […]
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Great Adventure Travel For Less
Adventure travel doesn’t have to break the bank. Here’s how you can find great adventures for less. Read my story in Money Magazine (downloadable PDF of the print story below!)
Here’s How Honda Designed a Car During the Pandemic
After March 2020, every automaker on the planet had to rethink how it leveraged technology. Everything from design and engineering to key partnerships needed to be rethought to keep businesses running. While Honda may not be the automaker you think of as pushing the automotive […]
Mercedes Built a Concept Car for James Cameron’s Avatar. I drove it.
When you think of the future of transportation, you probably don’t think of water dragons like those in director James Cameron’s newest Avatar movie, Avatar: The Way of Water, which will be released on December 16. You might think of something more along the lines of […]
Why Mentorship Matters
Young people across the country are struggling. These mentors are working to help. Read my full story at Shondaland. There’s no question about it — the pandemic has taken a tremendous toll on young people around the world. According to a recent study by the CDC, […]
Big tech is laying off workers. The growing ‘green collar’ job industry hopes to recruit them.
READ MY STORY OVER AT FORTUNE MAGAZINE. Three days after Justin Hardin started his job at Slack, the country went into lockdown. Soon, his hometown was facing another crisis as wildfires raged nearby. “I taught myself to code to change the world,” said Hardin, who […]
What I Learned About Makeup As an On-Air Personality
Check out my full post on The Candidly. There your purchases may earn The Candidly commission. Here they earn no commission (and I bought every single one of these products myself). Makeup can be amazing, or it can bring you to tears. But, as someone […]
Camping in the Desert in an All-Electric Rivian R1S
I hate the desert, and it hates me, but camping in a brand new Rivian R1S is where it is at in extreme environments. Read my full story at TechCrunch. Let’s be clear: I hate the desert. In spite of competing in last year’s Rebelle […]
This 90s-era Staple Will Change Your Wardrobe for the Better
I own five, YES FIVE, jean-style button-down shirts (all of them with different price points, hands, buttons, and styles), and cannot walk through a single retail establishment without at least looking at and seriously considering yet another chambray, denim, blue button-down. I’ve been known to […]
A Conversation With Journalists: CNN’s Lisa Ling
Ling grew up watching television and says she thought it was the best way to a better life. It led her to journalism. Read my full interview with Lisa Ling at Shondaland. In the ongoing Shondaland series Head Turners, we meet interesting women from every […]
Waymo’s new robotaxi is an all-electric people mover with no steering wheel
The Alphabet company got together with Geely’s Zeekr to build its next-generation autonomous people mover, and it’s as notable for what it’s missing (steering wheel, side-view mirrors) as for what it’s got. Read the full story at The Verge. Waymo, the Alphabet-owned autonomous taxi company […]
Grappling With Our Nation’s History of Hatred: How Do We Remember to Move Forward?
Read my story over at Shondaland. “The Atlantic” staff writer Clint Smith argues that in order for America to move forward and avoid mistakes and atrocities of our past, we have to find a way to atone for them in the present Author, poet, Ph.D., […]