Blink. Blink. Blink. The cursor won’t stop taunting me. Write something, loser. Shit just doesn’t magically appear, you know. I sit staring blankly—almost as blank as the empty page in Word that sits …
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It’s taken me a long time to sit down and write this. Not only because things have been hard lately, but also because in the last few years it seems …
Bruce Jenner is a former Olympic athlete, gold-medalist track hero, American icon, reality TV celebrity, and most recently gossip rag cover star due to rumors that he* is transgender and …
Falling in love has been a deeply transformative, beautiful and admittedly scary experience for me. I’m a naturally anxious person who has a tendency to question everything and get extremely …
When people ask me what I do for a living, it’s a hard question to answer. In reality I’m a waitress. I also do some work for my father’s IT …
My nieces’ entire lives will be documented on social media. At 5 and 3 years of age, there is not a single second of their lives that has existed or will …
If you’re anything like I was six months ago, when you think about meditation you picture people sitting on plush pillows humming the “Ohhhhmmm” us non-meditators assume is a derivative …
Dear Austin, Wednesday night you lost two of your children, and for that, I weep with you. At a time when your shoes are shined, your hair is done and you have …
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How I Almost Lost Christmas
December 17, 2013
My friends still joke about the time I dated a Jehovah’s Witness. They kid that he was crazy, misguided, brainwashed and ask how I dealt with constantly being made to …
As a 22-year-old who could easily pass for 19 on most days, I am constantly asked, “So… are you in school?” For the first few years after high school, having …
