who are you?

I’m Claire Landsbaum, a New York-based journalist and a Deputy Features Editor at Business Insider. Previously, I edited Vanity Fair’s Hive. My work has appeared in places like Vanity Fair, New York Magazine, and Slate.

what is Real Feel?

Every May when I was a kid, my mom piled our stuff into her massive car and drove us 13 hours to her parents’ house. If we were desperate to pull over for a pee along the way, we’d say we had “yellow eyeballs” — as in, we had to go so badly that we’d filled up from our toes and were about to overflow.

Real Feel is like having yellow eyeballs…emotionally. You can expect an issue when I feel overfull, when something has particularly moved me, when I think you might be moved by it, too. Sometimes I’ll include links to other pieces of writing that have made me feel something. Welcome to the emotional port-a-potty on the road trip of life.

Real Feel’s logo was designed by tattoo artist and illustrator Jennifer Palomaa.