THE RESULTS are in… and they’re not that surprising, though they should be. The demographic of single women is dominated by those with smarts. That’s…
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YOU MIGHT HAVE one of those friendships where it seems like no matter where you go, someone’s asking if you and your friend are related.…
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I’VE BEEN ON and off (mostly on) birth control pills since I was 18. Preventing unwanted pregnancy, although important, was not the main reason I…
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I LOVE Lena Dunham as much as the next woman. So when she announced last week on Twitter that she uses “birth control” to treat…
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ARGUABLY, the worst kind of breakup is the one that pulls the carpet out from underneath you. You think things are going fine and…
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THE FIRST TIME I can remember hearing Stevie Nicks: I’m five or six, sitting on the brown carpet in my parents’ living room listening to…
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IN FIRST GRADE grade I had a best friend named Krista. Her mom was the PE teacher and she had legs like spaghetti noodles that tapered off…
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I STOPPED drinking soda for good after high school. Which wasn’t too hard, since I never drank it much then, either. Syrupy, sugary-sweet cola of…
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VICES BY THEIR very definition are “serious moral failings” or, if you’re taking a harder slant, “wicked or evil conduct.” The nature of a vice…
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IT’S ALWAYS cute, not to mention hilarious, to see a five-year-old tottering around in her mother’s heels and smearing lipstick all over her face. It…
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SEVEN years ago I wrote a piece about the six degrees of separation between myself and Vice President Joe Biden, wherein I described an evening at…
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I HAVE come to the realization that using the word “hell” in relation to “Los Angeles” is thematic in most of my writing as of late.…
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