Your senior year of college can be the most exciting and terrifying stages in a person’s life. Preparing for the real world is stressful — but having three family members pass within four months can take make even the most stoic person lose their mind. My comedian uncle, my ...Continue reading 

I was 18 when I found out I was pregnant. Five weeks prior, I was raped by my then-boyfriend and, in my determination to forget what had happened, forgot to get emergency contraception. I missed a period and then bought some pregnancy tests, which I took on my lunch break from college in a

In the middle of Los Angeles, California there is an area called the La Brea Tar Pits, where asphalt and crude oil seep up to form pools on the surface of the ground. There’s a museum nearby where you can view the fossilized remains of animals, from beetles to mastodons, that became stuck in the

I lost my Valentine. He’s somewhere in the heavens. He died in late January in his sleep. This wasn’t supposed to happen. This wasn’t part of the plan. We were supposed to move in together in two weeks. It was supposed to be the start of our life together.Adam and I dated for three years; those

When my father told me he was dating someone and wanted me to meet her, I was relieved.My dad's love life was fairly peripheral to my childhood. His job took him away from home, and he kept small flats wherever he was working that year. His love life stayed with his work life, and my childhood home