
Jen Doll
Jen Doll is the author of the memoir Save the Date: The Occasional Mortifications of a Serial Wedding Guest. She's also the managing editor for Mental Floss magazine and has written for The Atlantic, Esquire, Glamour, Marie Claire, The Hairpin, New York magazine, The New Republic, The New York Times Book Review The Village Voice, and other publications.
Latest articles by Jen Doll
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 Why I fell hard for the emoji tapbackfeature I heart you, tiny heart By Jen Doll Published feature
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 'You're fine': The Ugg boot of apology responsesfeature I'm sorry, but are any of us fine, really? By Jen Doll Published feature
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How to start this new year rightfeature Put down your resolutions for a minute and think about what you did well last year By Jen Doll Published feature
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 Don't tell me to relaxfeature You relax By Jen Doll Published feature
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 Everything sucks. I blame Mercury.feature Here's why I keep reminding people the planet is in retrograde By Jen Doll Published feature
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 The secret beauty of the busfeature Buses, with their giant windows and high-seated vantage point on the road, let you see the world as it is By Jen Doll Published feature
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I have become everything I hate. I put smiley faces everywhere now. :)feature If there are appropriate small ways to lift our own spirits, and to lift the spirits of others, shouldn't we use them? By Jen Doll Last updated feature
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 My one-woman mission to get rid of the verb 'mans'opinion Why do we all still use this sexist word? By Jen Doll Published opinion
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 What do women want? Pockets!opinion When do we want them? Yesterday! By Jen Doll Last updated opinion
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 Should you call your significant other 'partner'?opinion I've come to love the term — but it wasn't easy By Jen Doll Published opinion
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 You can always count on an airport barfeature While the world around us changes rapidly, the airport bar is frozen in time By Jen Doll Published feature
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 April really is the cruelest monthfeature Weather isn't the only issue. By Jen Doll Published feature
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 I read a bunch of young adult novels. Suddenly, our future seems hopeful.opinion These are the stories we need to read right now By Jen Doll Published opinion
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 Why alone time is the best timeopinion Being alone is not the same as being lonely. Not even close. By Jen Doll Published opinion
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 How I learned to love photos of your kids on Instagramopinion In a world of filters and fakery, children are the most pure thing on social media By Jen Doll Last updated opinion
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 Don't be a holiday shopping suckerfeature Follow these nine tips and you'll escape the dreaded holiday shopping season with money still in your bank account By Jen Doll Published feature
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 How to overcome your inner cynic and embrace gratitude (without being a total cheeseball)opinion In a world that's always going to have problems, it turns out that it's surprisingly addictive to remember there are things to be (cautiously) joyful about, too By Jen Doll Published opinion
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 Why scary books are better than scary moviesfeature The things we imagine can often be scarier than anything seen on screen By Jen Doll Published feature
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 How Trump trumped trumpThe Explainer America's president, destroyer of words By Jen Doll Published The Explainer
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 Websites, please stop trying to shame me for not subscribing to your annoying marketing emailsfeature Confirm-shaming is the most annoying new marketing trend on the internet By Jen Doll Published feature
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 Please don't wish me happy birthday on Facebookopinion You are totally stressing me out. Please stop. By Jen Doll Published opinion
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 How am I? I'm not fine. No one is fine.opinion Stop it with your insipid, vapid small talk. I can no longer abide your prattling chit-chat. By Jen Doll Published opinion
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 Is protesting the new brunch?feature How brunch went from a hipster joke to an activist mantra By Jen Doll Published feature
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 5 reasons why scary books are better than scary moviesfeature "Books allow me to interpret what I read in my own head, which is maybe the scariest place on Earth." By Jen Doll Published feature
