There’s an advantage to having a friend who is psychic, aside from the fact that it’s so fascinating to observe her from a research perspective. I can’t say that I’m entirely sold on the idea of fortune telling, but I still get shivers when she plucks thoughts right out of my head and repeats them […]

I wasn’t very popular in high school. I wasn’t picked on either. I was mostly invisible, and being visible allows you to be privy to a lot of conversations. Essentially, I developed a knack for observing people in their natural habitat without making it look like I’m observing them. I developed a distaste for popularity […]

I came across a post where a girl was complaining that her boyfriend felt uneasy about staying overnight, because he felt bad about leaving his cat alone. She went on to question whether this was a sign that he (or his cat, or both) had an unhealthy attachment. I wonder if she was expecting comments […]

A few months ago, the Queendom team was approached by representatives for Reebok with an idea for a bold new campaign (you can check out the Superbowl commercial here). They had a request that would turn out to be one of the most challenging and inspiring endeavors we’ve ever taken on: They wanted us to […]

I hate that feeling…that feeling I had last week when I thought I had left my flat-iron on. Or not being sure whether I locked my front door, my car door, or turned off my headlights on. I’ll think to myself that I’m probably the only person who worries about this ridiculous minutia, and then […]

On the first (and subsequently last) day of my management courses, the professor asked random students why they wanted to be a manager. I was sitting behind a girl I had known in high school and particularly disliked – not because she was popular, but because she used her popularity and power to make the […]

I like to observe people. Not in a creepy kind of way. I take note of the words and gestures they use, their habits, how they respond to negative situations, and what motivates them. I do this often with family and friends, and then go all Freudian, trying to connect a particular action or quirk […]

When my friend came back from New York, she brought me the playbill from The Phantom of the Opera. I really love the musical, but I can’t help but recognize its fallacies. Like, how could Christine not know that the Phantom was a few keys short of an organ, if you know what I mean? […]

I don’t have the audacity to assume that all introverts are like me. So I took a sample of 5,572 people who took Queendom’s Extroversion/Introversion Test to back me up. I fear that we, the introverts, have been wildly misunderstood: We do enjoy making friends. In fact, 50% of my sample indicated that they enjoy […]

After I got my first (and at this point, my only) tattoo, I regretted it…after the adrenaline wore off, of course. I have grown used to having it, and many years later, I don’t really think about it much. After I got my first car, doubt started setting in about whether it was financially sensible. […]

I’m not to watch Entertainment Tonight or any of these shows that talk about the ins and outs of Hollywood. Frankly, I find the hosts and their interviews fake and pretentious. Aside from the fact that they can stretch one story for two months, they try to make it look like they feel sincere remorse […]

I know a few people who have an uncanny ability to start a fight over the most petty, meaningless, insignificant (hang on…where’s my thesaurus), picayune (Yeah baby, now THAT’S a fancy word) issues. For example, a family member vehemently refused to believe that pasta did not originate in Italy. Italians did a good job perfecting […]