My Little Babog

Every renovation has a version that exists on paper and a version that exists in the house. The paper version is clean — a defined scope, a clear budget, a predictable sequence of work that produces the planned result by the planned date. The version that exists in the house involves the conditions behind walls that nobody could see during planning, the material that’s on a l...

The retro video game market went through a period of significant inflation that surprised everyone who wasn’t paying close attention to it. Games that were worth a few dollars at garage sales in the 2010s started selling for multiples of their original retail price. Sealed copies of specific titles reached numbers that seemed disconnected from any reasonable connection to the...

Most people who have been injured in an accident spend some time trying to figure out whether they actually need a lawyer. The internal calculation usually goes something like this: the accident wasn’t that complicated, the other party was clearly at fault, the insurance company seems cooperative, and hiring an attorney means giving up a percentage of whatever is recovered. W...

A meaningful inscription captures a moment, a relationship, or a value in just a few words. The strongest examples are short, specific, and personal, such as initials, a key date, a private nickname, coordinates, or a line that holds shared meaning. Pick words that will still resonate in ten years, then match the length to the surface area and method available...

A lot of people don’t connect their tired, heavy appearance to their brows. They think it’s the eyelids, or the forehead lines, or just general aging. But the position of the brows plays a surprisingly large role in how alert, happy, and rested someone looks. When brows drop below where they used to sit, they create heaviness over the eyes, deepen the lines between them, and ...