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5 Things you May not Have Thought to Watch this Spooky Season
We all know the Halloween movies, Nightmare before Christmas, Beeteljuice, Practical Magic, Hocus Pocus. And they’re classics for a...
Adelemarie Palermo
Oct 9, 20233 min read


The Case for A Woman's Inner Witch
Let’s be honest. When you hear the word “witch”, the first image that pops into your head is a woman. And no, that doesn’t make you...
Adelemarie Palermo
Oct 1, 20237 min read


Think Pumpkin Spice is Cheugy? Me Too. Here are Some Alternatives:
There’s nothing necessarily wrong with pumpkin spice, but I think we can agree it’s a little basic, and pumpkins aren’t the only thing that
Adelemarie Palermo
Sep 17, 20233 min read


Beauty Tips for each Phase of your Menstrual Cycle
All female primates go through a menstrual cycle, and the efficiency of this cycle is reliant upon a symphony of hormones that dictates...
Adelemarie Palermo
Sep 10, 20233 min read


Not Your Grandma's Fig Newtons: Figs as a Symbol of the Dark Feminine
Figs are definitely the dark feminine in a fruit, representing fertility and the forbidden. Since it is now fig season, which directly...
Adelemarie Palermo
Sep 3, 20236 min read


Less is More: Lessons from a Japanese Matcha Ceremony
In NYC's Flatiron District, I attended a matcha ceremony. This ceremony is a part of Japan's Samurai culture, in which they took a moment...
Adelemarie Palermo
Aug 7, 20233 min read


Fragrance-free Cleaning Products you Should be Using
If you’re intolerant to artificial fragrances, trying to reduce your toxic load, or just super crunchy, here are some awesome cleaning...
Adelemarie Palermo
Jul 23, 20233 min read


Work Outfits I Wore as Each of the 7 Feminine Archetypes
Archetypes, a concept popularized by Swiss psychologist Carl Jung, are simply a way to categorize personality types according to patterns...
Adelemarie Palermo
Jul 8, 20233 min read


I Bathed Like an Ancient Roman. For Science
Ancient beauty rituals and products are often popularized for marketing purposes because it makes the consumer feel like they are doing...
Adelemarie Palermo
Jun 18, 20234 min read


What we can Take from Dita von Teese
In February I went to the Glamonatrix show put on by the stunning Dita von Teese and friends in NYC. The cold night air and anticipation...
Adelemarie Palermo
Mar 26, 20234 min read


Ancient Rome: A place or concept?
Rome is an idealized concept in the West, and since we focus on this more than Rome as a civilization or people, there are lessons from...
Adelemarie Palermo
Dec 26, 202210 min read


Artifishal by Patagonia: The Sustainability Catch-22
Because of the building of the Baker River dam, wild salmon were unable to make their natural reproductive migration upstream to lay...
Adelemarie Palermo
Dec 26, 20224 min read


What's the deal with free will?
We all think we make our own choices. We choose to wake up in the morning, we choose to brush our teeth, we choose to eat the cereal that...
Adelemarie Palermo
Dec 4, 202212 min read


Roman Deities and Applications in the Aeneid
Greco-Roman deities are still relevant today, as we refer to their characterizations in pop culture and even in daily life. Just as a few...
Adelemarie Palermo
Dec 3, 202212 min read
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