Group Dinners Are Awful. Stop Having Them

Getting older seems to come with a fair amount of side effects—increased joint pain, indigestion, tooth sensitivity, general peckishness against sleeping after 11 on a weeknight. Some of these are just general consequences of your body letting you know that you, too, are slowly decaying from years of treating your body like Play-Doh with no remorse. Others are just the impact of increased administrative responsibilities—if 14-year-old me had any idea of the clusterf--k that is tax season, I am more than sure that I would have tried to draw out my teen years as long as humanly possible.*