Category: Superstitions & Beliefs

I spent most of last year feeling like I was walking through invisible cobwebs in my own living room. You…

I stood in the kitchen, the linoleum cold against my bare feet, and I realized I didn’t know the person…

I was sitting at this impossibly long mahogany table back in 2009, trying to look much more professional than I…

I used to be the biggest skeptic in the room when it came to anything that smelled like a ritual.…

I remember standing on a narrow, cobblestone street in Florence back in 2009. The air smelled of roasting chestnuts and…

I was standing at the threshold of my apartment in Mumbai, bags packed for a three-month trek through the Karakoram,…

I was sitting in a glass-walled conference room in downtown Manhattan, the kind where the air feels too thin and…

I found myself staring at the spinning wheel of a software update last Tuesday, holding my breath and crossing my…

I used to think my grandmother was just being difficult when she’d pull me back from the front door, her…

I used to scoff at food superstitions, rolling my eyes at spilled salt or not cutting pasta. Oh, the youthful…