Funny good night messages have a different job than funny good morning ones, and most lists treat them like the same thing. They’re not. A good morning joke has to wake someone up. A good night joke just has to send them off with a smile, which means it can be softer, sillier, and a … Read more
A long distance good morning message does something a routine morning text cannot. It says that the first thought of the day crossed time zones to get there, that the distance is real but so is the person on the other end of it. These 75 messages are sorted by relationship and situation so you … Read more
Love messages are not one thing. They are the short text that arrives on a quiet afternoon and stays with someone for the rest of the week, and the long paragraph rewritten twice at midnight before it finally gets sent. They are the words for love that is brand new and still tentative, and the … Read more
Most of us have someone we have been meaning to contact for months. We circle back to the thought, talk ourselves out of it, and wait for a better moment that never quite arrives. Research consistently shows that the people we are hesitant to reach out to want to hear from us far more than … Read more
Messaging has replaced phone calls for most of what we communicate day to day, and for most of it, that shift is fine. But some moments need a voice, and reaching for a text instead is not always the efficient choice. Sometimes it is the easier one, and those two things are not the same. … Read more