100 Genuine Ways to Live a Better Life This Year. Genuinely.

Backed by science and a guy from YouTube

Image by author: See point 40. You’ll get it.

Picture this. It’s 8:32 pm on a bank holiday Monday, the first of the year, and I am sprawled out at an angle not too dissimilar to the Earth’s axial tilt, a blanket with stars printed on is draped over my knees like the night sky has been embroidered into my anatomy, and I’m clutching a half…

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Emily Wilcox

I imagine in a parallel universe I might be a caricaturist or a botanist or somewhere asleep on the moon — but here, I am a writer.