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There's a bit of a reluctance on my part to promote myself as any kind of hero because the things I've had to overcome in my life are not the deepest, darkest things.
Faith Salie
Life
Myself
Overcome
Hero
Darkest
My Life
Bit
Kind
Promote
Reluctance
Had
Part
Because
Any
Deepest
Things
The desperate hunger our president has for approbation has led him to such lengths as claiming that God stopped the rain during his Inauguration. In fact, Mother Nature made sure it rained on Trump's hair the minute he started his speech.
Faith Salie
God
Nature
Rain
Mother
Desperate
Made
Hair
President
Our
Approbation
Hunger
Claiming
Minute
Fact
He
Him
Sure
Mother Nature
His
Led
Trump
Stopped
In Fact
Inauguration
Rained
Started
Speech
I don't mean to brag, but my water filter curates tap water, offering moi the finest combination of H, 2, and O available.
Faith Salie
Water
Filter
Finest
Combination
Brag
Tap
Offering
Available
Mean
It was my husband who had to open all the baby shower gifts which were haunting me in their candy-colored gift wrap - thank you notes demanding to be written.
Faith Salie
Me
You
Gift
Husband
Demanding
Thank You
Baby
Gifts
Wrap
Haunting
Open
Had
Written
Were
Thank
Which
Notes
Who
Shower
Sometimes art helps illuminate science.
Faith Salie
Art
Science
Sometimes
Helps
Illuminate
No longer is a geek identifiable by a pale complexion, black-rimmed glasses, a bowling shirt that says 'Nerd World Order.' No, geeks are everywhere. And they're cool!
Faith Salie
World
Glasses
Complexion
Everywhere
Says
Nerd
Geek
Geeks
Longer
Bowling
Shirt
Order
Cool
Pale
World Order
Nothing ages you more immediately than being called 'Mrs.'
Faith Salie
You
Nothing
Immediately
More
Than
Being
Ages
When I was a kid, we called every teacher, every parent - anyone over the age of 20, it seemed - 'Mr. or Mrs. so-and-so.'
Faith Salie
Teacher
Age
Every
Kid
Seemed
Parent
Over
Anyone
The option to freeze one's eggs is just about the most empowering choice a single woman who knows she wants to be a mother can make.
Faith Salie
Woman
Mother
Single
About
Freeze
Most
She
Make
Empowering
Knows
Option
Eggs
Just
Wants
Choice
Who
I entered my egg-freezing adventure from a feeling of lack - a lack of fertility, of the right partner, of biological time. But this perceived lack actually produced abundance - of options, time, peace of mind, and microscopic chances of a child.
Faith Salie
Time
Peace
Mind
Feeling
Partner
Peace Of Mind
Entered
Perceived
Adventure
Abundance
Fertility
Child
Options
Microscopic
Lack
Produced
Actually
Right
Biological
Chances
I'll never get complacent. I am my own toughest critic.
Faith Salie
Own
Complacent
Critic
My Own
Toughest
Never
Am
Get
Shaking hands is a pretty good way to get yourself sick, not necessarily with Ebola, but with a million other germs that can cause colds and flu.
Faith Salie
Good
Yourself
Cause
Flu
Sick
Other
Way
Pretty
Pretty Good
Shaking
Good Way
Get
Hands
Million
Necessarily
If you grasp the bathroom door handle to exit without using a paper towel, you're right back where you started, with who-knows-whose germs on your hands.
Faith Salie
You
Back
Bathroom
Paper
Towel
Without
Exit
Handle
Hands
Where
Door
Your
Grasp
Using
Right
Right Back
Started
Twerking takes its place in a long line of dance moves deemed immoral, even apocalyptic. The waltz was called sinful because it demanded dangerously close contact between dance partners. In 1914, the tango earned a papal denunciation for being 'damaging to the soul.'
Faith Salie
Soul
Dance
Long
Earned
Dangerously
Immoral
Long Line
Contact
Takes
Between
Demanded
Sinful
Partners
Because
Tango
Line
Close
Waltz
Being
Moves
Place
Deemed
Even
Damaging
As a mother, I don't want any girl twerking near my kid at a bat mitzvah.
Faith Salie
Mother
Girl
Bat
Kid
Mitzvah
Any
Want
Near
In case you don't watch much TV or spend time with anyone under 40, 'Really?' is pop culture's pithiest way to deliver a withering put-down.
Faith Salie
Time
You
Culture
Spend
Way
TV
Case
Deliver
Withering
Anyone
Much
Really
Pop
Watch
I'm not actually perishing, but I do feel like I die a little every time someone uses 'literally' to mean 'really.'
Faith Salie
Time
Every
Every Time
Someone
Feel
Like
Die
Literally
Little
Mean
Really
Uses
Actually
Scientists have discovered that, as we age, our brains act like computers with fuller and fuller hard drives. So when we're trying to recall a fact or a word or a name, it takes us longer, because - to put it scientifically - our brains hold a lot of 'stuff.'
Faith Salie
Age
Word
Our
Fact
Computers
Drives
Put
Takes
Stuff
Longer
Name
Like
Because
Scientifically
Scientists
Discovered
Lot
Brains
Trying
Hold
Us
Act
Hard
Fuller
Recall
I'm no scientist, but I'll dare extrapolate and say that it's pretty obvious that the more you struggle to recall something, the smarter you are!
Faith Salie
You
Struggle
Extrapolate
Say
Dare
Pretty
Something
More
Smarter
Obvious
Scientist
Recall
John Travolta is getting old, despite what his hair is trying to tell us.
Faith Salie
Old
Hair
Getting Old
Despite
Tell
John
John Travolta
His
Trying
Getting
Us
Was Hugh Hefner a libertine or a dirty old man? Someone who empowered women or commodified them? The answer is yes!
Faith Salie
Man
Women
Old
Someone
Dirty
Empowered
Answer
Yes
Hugh
Them
Hefner
Old Man
Who
I tell my kids all the time that I'm so lucky they chose me to be their mom.
Faith Salie
Time
Mom
Me
Kids
Tell
Lucky
Chose
Manspread, mansplaining, manterrupting - all of it, whether conscious or not, diminishes women's voices, minds, and bodies.
Faith Salie
Women
Minds
Diminishes
Voices
Whether
Bodies
Conscious
If you don't know what mansplaining is, or manterrupting or manspread, then you're probably a guy.
Faith Salie
You
Guy
Know
Then
I think the curation consternation is this: Just because you like something or list something, are you really curating?
Faith Salie
You
Think
Consternation
Something
Like
Because
List
Just
Just Because
Really
One man's content is another woman's crap. And the crappy content - let's call it crontent - will never go away.
Faith Salie
Man
Woman
Will
Go Away
Never
Call
Another
Content
Go
Crap
Crappy
Away
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