For When You Are Stuck
In a little over a week and a half, I am moving out of my current apartment to house sit for the summer. I was asked a few months ago to do so, and I made myself a giant checklist of things that needed...
View Article“Doesn’t have to get crazy. Why can’t she just run away?”
I used to write an online column for Periphery Literary Magazine in Des Moines. The column was titled “Unfiltered”, and I wrote much about the same topics I write about here now: sex, feelings, etc....
View ArticleJune: Nostalgia
The term “nostalgia” was first coined in the 17th century by a Swiss physician named Johannes Hofer. Hofer came up with the term to describe what he considered a disease unique to soldiers that were...
View ArticleWhat My Life Was Supposed To Be Like Now, According to 10-Year-Old Me
“You said you would have your first kid by 26,” my friend Maura said. We were at a party in college and I had definitely had a blunt in my hand. The friends I was smoking with burst into laughter with...
View ArticleDon’t Call Me a 90’s Kid
At first, growing up seems exciting. It still is, but when it first happens, it’s incredible. Going off to college and living in a dream world full of booze and incestuous friend groups seems like...
View ArticleThe Way We Were: Behaving for Memory’s Sake
Every year for over a decade our parents, Maggie, Danny, and I, along with extended family in Tallahassee, would go to Hilton Head, South Carolina for a week. Each time we had to make sure we hit all...
View ArticleHealing with the Virgo New Moon and Solar Eclipse
Maggie and I have been in space, and now we’re back. We wouldn’t miss autumn for anything. Of course, the first thing we have to do is to write about the moon and what it does to us this month....
View ArticleKnow What You Really Want: How To Make The Law of Attraction Work
A couple of years ago at a low point, I watched The Secret on Netflix. Living in LA, I am used to the hippie-dippie type who have psychics rather than therapists, so I thought, “Hey, why not? This is...
View ArticleThe Difference Between Love and a being Receptacle for Male Emotions
There’s a long tradition on both sides of my family (as with a majority of families) of emotionally unavailable men. Fathers that have always worked incessantly to make their wives and children...
View ArticleThe One I Love: Projection Within Relationships
[Note: The following piece includes the discussion of twists that happen relatively early in the film. To the spoiler-aversed: proceed with caution] We all know that new relationship magic. The idea...
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