Archive - milk and cookies

August 2025

how to stop living your life on autopilot

there are mornings when i move so mechanically through the first hour of the day that i might as well have been switched on by a timer.

Aug 31 •

why we’re all so obsessed with doing more (and what it costs us)

there are days when i wake up already listing things.

Aug 29 •

the paradox of wanting a simple life in a noisy world

i was making coffee the other morning, standing too close to the counter because the apartment still smells faintly of the dinner i burned two nights…

Aug 24 •

is psychology a science or pseudo-science

i watched shrinking last week because some of you in the milk & cookies group chat swore it would land, and it did!

Aug 23 •

is philosophy a form of intellectual self-care?

some days my brain feels like a crowded room—half-finished thoughts balancing on top of each other, a to-do list pretending to be a personality, the…

Aug 21 •

how to know your full potential (adult version)

i have been thinking about how we measure potential once the world stops handing out stickers, once the cheering section dissolves into errands and…

Aug 19 •

the taboo we don’t talk about: death and grief

i have been thinking about the way we step around death like it is a chair someone forgot to push back in, a thing we learn to avoid with practiced…

Aug 18 •

introducing the milk & cookies book club!!!

there are ideas that sit with you for months, sometimes even years.

Aug 17 •

babel by rf kuang (a book review)- the good, the great, and the not-so-great

Aug 16 •

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