I create custom digital content for the Gawker Studio, Refinery29, M&M'S, the Environmental Defense Fund, and more. You can also view my copywriting portfolio at contentunderpressure.nyc.
Attending Burning Man or Parenting a Toddler?
1. You never shower without an audience.
2. The person who refused to wear sunscreen or drink water is now having a meltdown, and it’s your job to chase them around brandishing pickles and Gatorade until they chill out.
3. You can’t shut up about it.
The creative process for programmatic: A guide for marketers
A guide to the programmatic process for marketers, created from a series of case studies for Google DoubleClick.
How Infertility & Trying to Conceive Changes Sex
Nothing kills a lady-boner faster than having to screw on command. Before I started trying to conceive, I was an “anytime, any place, any excuse” kind of woman. Then I had to go and ruin it by wanting a baby.
I Refuse to Order Off the Kids’ Menu. Here’s Why.
Kids’ menus go against everything I love about restaurant meals: Trying new foods, sharing the experience with my family and pretending for one blissful hour that we’re all above throwing macaroni on the floor.
Feed Your Spirit (and Sex Life) with Recipes from a Kitchen Witch
Photo by Darren Muir via Stocksy
Supposedly, pizza is like sex: When it's hot, it's good, and when it's cold, it's still kind of good. But can better pizza lead to better sex? We turned to a practicing kitchen witch to find out.
Dawn Hunt is the owner and CEO of Cucina Aurora Kitchen Witchery in Salem, NH. She's devoted her life to perfecting and sharing foods and recipes with magical properties—ones that, when prepared with intention, have the power to impact life beyond the cutting board.
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What’s in Your DNA?
For decades, biohackers, endurance athletes, and the preternaturally curious have attempted to use the latest scientific breakthroughs to be stronger, faster, healthier, and smarter. Now, they have an arsenal of personal genomics tools at their disposal.
The Road to Sequenced
Before we get into what these innovations mean for our lives today, it’s important to understand how we got here (and that “we” refers to scientific geniuses). DNA sequencing technology has existed since 1977 when scient...
6 Strange Reasons You’re Not Getting Pregnant
Ever since ninth-grade health class, you’ve been hearing about how easy it is to get pregnant. All it takes is one expired condom, one missed pill, one night with too many mojitos…until you actually want to get pregnant, at which point it might suddenly become the most difficult thing you’ve ever tried to do in your life.
If you’ve been trying for more than a couple of months, you’ve probably mastered the delicate arts of tracking your cycle, timing intercourse, and surviving the grueling two...
What Your Friends With Fertility Issues Actually Want You To Say
Baby-making is supposed to be a beautiful time in a woman’s life, full of emotional closeness, gleeful anticipation, and a lot of hot, unprotected boning. But if, like me, your ovaries haven’t gotten the message, it quickly becomes about as magical as a trip to the DMV — and at least at the DMV, they let you keep your pants on.
Chances are, you know a woman like me: someone who’s always wanted children and knows she’d make a great mom, but whose baby-making regimen now consists of sterile fer...
Why I Went Back to Using My Maiden Name Even Though I'm Still Married
He stole her heart. She stole his last name.
I saw this at a wedding this past weekend, at a lodge overlooking Denali National Park in Alaska. It was written, of course, in fanciful script on a tiny chalkboard, nestled among other tiny chalkboards that said things like: This way to love and laughter and happily ever after and, on the bar: Yes, you CAN dance! Love, Alcohol.
But this, in particular, sat in my stomach like an undigested Jordan almond through the ceremony and past the Electric Sl...
The Loneliness of Infertility
The infertility limbo is crowded yet lonely. One in eight couples are stalled here, but the neighbors rarely speak. It's a land of receding horizons and shifting shores, the not-so-pregnant pause between committing to kids and getting knocked up. It's an arid island in a fertile crescent.
I've been living in limbo for the last four years. In a month I turn 35: the witching age at which, statistically, my chances of having a child begin to plummet.
Cameras, drones and lasers
Dr. Jason Gu was still a graduate student when he developed the technology behind SenSevere, a start-up that creates laser-based gas sensors for use in heavy industry and power plants. His fascination with innovation isn’t just making his clients more efficient—it may also be saving the planet.
5 Holiday Gifts That Keep On Giving
Gadgets lose their luster when the next shiny thing comes along, candles burn away, and the novelty cheese knives shaped like dancing mice lost their charm the second they were opened.
Debunking 6 Common Misconceptions About Whiskey and Craft Beer
There’s more misinformation about beer and whiskey out there than there are bottles of beer on the wall, and just because the guy on the bar stool next to you claims something as fact, doesn’t mean it’s true.
How to Look Like a Boss in a Pants-Free Workplace
Working from home is the best thing to happen to work since the plow: pants are optional, happy hour starts whenever you feel like it, and you can nuke last night's fish with wild abandon. Thanks to Skype, it's easier than ever to join the remote workforce — as long as you're willing to follow a few tips that keep you looking professional.
How to Be a Tourist in Your Own City
Now that the Winter of Doom is over and spring is finally here, I’m making a new commitment to myself. I’m going to explore my city like a tourist, and get some much-needed exercise in the process.