Ex-Smoker Chronicles: Relapse

Jesus, I look awful. What the hell did I do last night? These are the words running through my mind as I stare at my…
Read onJesus, I look awful. What the hell did I do last night? These are the words running through my mind as I stare at my…
Read onHumans are social creatures, there’s no doubt about that. But some days, it can feel like if we don’t see another person for the rest…
Read on“That wouldn’t have happened back home.” “What wouldn’t have?” “That whole day. Our conversation, the quiet location and views. And we didn’t have our phones out!” In…
Read onBeing vulnerable sucks. There are few instances I can think of where putting myself out there, exposing my needs or weaknesses or fears to someone…
Read onWhen someone utters the term “Ivy League”, images of Harvard scholars and Yale alumni strolling across a leaf-covered campus in the autumn immediately come to…
Read onApparently Nabisco has just wrapped up a two-month run with their “Cookie Dough” Oreo, which seems as grotesquely redundant as obesity-riddled America would presently demand.…
Read onall I see is cubes. Just last week, Seattle-based retail mogul Amazon.com Inc. announced that Walt Disney Studios’ animated feature Frozen, released last November,…
Read onThere has been a great amount of praise and criticism for a certain female artist’s recent voice in feminism. I’ll give you a hint—her name…
Read onWriters are often referred to as “starving artists,” lumped into the category with aspiring musicians, actors and so forth. And though it’s true some may struggle…
Read onThe Secret came out when I was 22, just a young and impressionable girl in the throws of a very fickle career in the modeling…
Read onWhen Sheryl Sandberg (COO of Facebook) very publicly encouraged women everywhere to Lean In, and published subsequent book, Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead, it…
Read onNot that you’d be able to tell from the insane weather fluctuations that have been gripping the country (and L.A. specifically) as of late, but…
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