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Send us Fan Mail In a world where we are surrounded with new tech—the latest phone, for example, or whatever latest gadget just dropped this very minute, we have so much to choose from and so little time to experience them all. It feels like it all comes down to our own lifestyle and how technology either compliments our life, improves it, or both. Similar to our previous episodes where we talk ab...

Send us Fan Mail Reading through a Twitter thread about random acts of kindness, I was reading about a topic on kindness and how the act of giving out compliments, she found that most people have a harder time accepting compliments. Acts of kindness in conversation, can fall in to either compliments or criticism. In this episode, we have a light and straightforward conversation about acts of kindn...

Send us Fan Mail NFL season is back, and for us here and our friends, that means a few things that consistently happen every year around this time. Watching football and sharing in our angst or pride of being a fan of the same team. Additionally, most of us partake in games like fantasy football, or participate in banters about certain teams or players with loved ones and/or coworkers. In today’s...

Send us Fan Mail With streaming services being so much more prevalent in our lives, and access to incredible shows and movies at the touch of our remote, we can explore and enjoy entertainment all from the comfort of our home. The pandemic has increased this ability for us. New movies that traditionally debut in movie theaters first, are now simultaneously hitting streaming services for people to...

Send us Fan Mail At some point in time, it seems like we all start to collect things that we find interesting. Maybe as kids, you would collect rocks, or collect cards. As adults, we continue that urge to collect. It doesn’t have to make sense to others, as long as we enjoy it. From large and expensive items to free things we find already disposed of on the ground, why do we collect? In this episo...

Send us Fan Mail I am sure there is data out there about how many pets were adopted or bought during the COVID-19 pandemic.  I've heard terms like pandemic pets to describe the act of getting a pet during these trying times.  I will admit that my partner and I fell into this category as of late.  We are now pandemic pet parents after buying a puppy.  For most who are in similar positions as u...

Send us Fan Mail Summertime is upon us, and here in the U.S., we are experiencing re-openings everywhere and trying to enjoy the sun with friends and family, again.  For the first time in a long while during this pandemic, we are looking forward towards a new future with hopefully less anxiety and panic towards the virus that has happened upon us since the year 2020.  With all the positive news, h...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the 2nd 4th of July celebration of the pandemic.  And as most of you all know from our series, the pandemic is still going on until we stop hearing about it, and maybe some form of normalcy comes back in the world.  Last year in 2020, deep in the midst of the city lockdowns, the 4th of July still came and went.  This year it seems we are nearing the end of widespread ca...

Send us Fan Mail Social media is a large and mostly integrated part of our lives in one aspect or another. It seems unavoidable, for we find some way to make use of it, or some way to just interact with it. Some can argue that social media apps are a waste of time, bad for our mental health, or make us more disconnected from one another. Others can say it’s beneficial; it keeps us more connected,...

Send us Fan Mail Since the turn of technology and the advancement of personal computer devices powered with the internet at our fingertips, consumption of the media has been a growing part of our lifestyle.  Even more so today while we are in this pandemic, no longer do we have to venture out to theaters, grocery stores, and restaurants to experience them--we have apps now to get us groceries and...

Send us Fan Mail For most of us, our friends and our family included, are vaccinated against Covid-19.  Though the pandemic took us for a ride of a lifetime, we are still unsure of what "normal" life is going to look like when everything is opened back up, again.  Most state mandates allow fully vaccinated people to go mask-less in public places, how are we feeling about the success of t...

Send us Fan Mail Is new music that bad, or are we just getting old?  Last week we talked about our taste in food, and this week we are turning to another light hearted episode talking about our taste in music.  As you all know, music is very subjective and it is truly in the ear of the beholder (if that is even a saying?), you know what I mean?  But is it that newer music is sounding bad to us, or...

Send us Fan Mail With optimistic news of vaccines and re-openings, for some, we are either still in a pandemic, or we are nearing the end of it.  It is all one’s perspective, though, and every level in between.  As you know, we started recording when the pandemic first started, and what better topic or topics to discuss, than to continue talking about being in it until we see the end of it. In tod...

Send us Fan Mail Whether it's a change in pace in our lives, or just a change in the weather, our mood tends to swing with them.  We all know it's human to have a bad day, and when it comes to having those bad days, it's all about trial and error on how we figure out how to resolve those tensions.  And the older and wiser we become, sometimes those bad days come through harder, and...

Send us Fan Mail The pandemic has shifted a lot of our perceptions. Whether that be the way we view our society, our culture, or our state of being, it seemed like we all underwent some sort of change that impacted our lives. For me, the shift from working from home full time has definitely caused me to be more of a night owl. How can I get more done in a day without going to bed early, especially...

Send us Fan Mail Relying on our computers and connectivity to the internet is increasingly a huge part of our lives.  I can vaguely remember when I didn't get my first cell phone--flip phone, to be exact--until I was in my late teens.  Nowadays, it feels like a lot of babies are learning how to control an iPad from the moment they are born!  Everyday we are glued to our phone's screens f...

Send us Fan Mail Video games are a big hobby for most of us.  It is its own community, and in OSYL, we talk about it often and the impact it makes on all people.  Whether it frees us virtually from the stresses of the pandemic, or we treat it seriously like a profession, videos games are all around us to enjoy in some form or another.  In this episode, we have a quick discussion on sports video ga...

Send us Fan Mail For most of us, it seems like this week or this month, we have been gathering steam in being busy bodies, again.  With being busy, sometimes we start piling too much on to our plates, and we start juggling too many things.  Dividing and subdividing our attention, we start to stress out a little bit and become burned out.  Whether we are starting to experience this burnout this mon...

Send us Fan Mail There are many books that are memorable to us as kids.  Whether we were avid readers, or the moment of being read to by a loving guardian or favorite teacher just evokes the peacefulness that comes with remembering that story.  For us, books cultivated our imagination, and as we grew older, sometimes we forget about it and having a creative and active imagination is a distant memo...

Send us Fan Mail A year ago, when the Covid-19 pandemic first began, most of us found it as an opportunity to focus on more self-care.  The thought that this was nature's way of telling us to slow down in life, this felt like an amazing time to re-focus on what truly matters, and that is trying to hunker down on finding the intrinsic nature of what makes us loving humans.  This could be takin...

Send us Fan Mail Exactly a year ago, approximately April 2020, us here in the States entered a stay-at-home order in order to try and prevent the spread of Covid-19.  Meanwhile, professional sports around the country began taking measures to follow government orders and protect their players by either postponing seasons, or limiting their games in some form.  Because of sports closing during the p...

Send us Fan Mail Back when the pandemic first started here in the states, it began a whole new societal shift.  The stay at home order caused us to stay locked down and tend to our own personal devices.  In hindsight, we probably thought this was a good time to start more self care, and little did we know, that we would actually miss seeing and being around other people.  Around this time last yea...

Send us Fan Mail It has been a complete year since our world here in the States flipped upside down.  Or stalled, or however you would like to call it.  As of the time of this episode, it was approximately the end of March 2020 that our government had issued a stay-at-home order hoping to prevent the spread of Covid-19.  In hindsight, we all thought the lock downs for the pandemic would've on...

Send us Fan Mail There is a fascination with the unknown, the unexplainable, and the conspiracy. The way that stories fuel our imagination, something about the paranormal fuels the same and a want to reason with what we cannot fully comprehend. Some may not exactly believe in ghosts or aliens, but paranormal events can extend beyond the spirit world or outside the solar system. In this episode, we...

Send us Fan Mail Marriage in our generation appears different.  No longer do we feel it is the ultimate goal and to not obtain it would be failure.  In our age of technology and information, it appears just like our flexibility with work, our timeline for certain traditions is at a different pace than previous generations are used to. In this episode, we bring the 3 part episode regarding generati...