I know the internet is teeming with trite blogs about your 20s: words neatly condensed into bullet points and numbered lists to relate to the masses. I can’t relate. “‘Your desultory 20s,’ my mother calls my lost time, trying to make it sound reasonable and fun, but it started before I was 20 and lasted much […]
Please, I beg of you, stop calling us lazy. We are quietly burrowing our way out of the deep ruts the recession carved into our economy. After living independently for the past 11 years, I didn’t imagine moving to my parents’ basement as part of my dream trajectory. As a little girl writing page after page […]
I tried to kill my feeling of emptiness and perpetual worthlessness with a busy schedule, with excess, with needless indulgences until eventually I became a burned-out, emotional ragged adult. I was elbow-deep in avocados on a quest to find the perfectly soft, ripe avocado for guacamole, which is basically impossible in early spring in North […]
Navigating the real world in your 20’s is hard enough. Try doing it as an alcoholic. If you or a loved one has ever attended an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, you are likely to have heard some variation of this slogan, “If you hang around a barber shop long enough, eventually you’re gonna get a haircut.” […]
Society says people should completely fall apart after a breakup, but everyone deals with heartbreak in their own way. I recently sliced my heart wide open and found a horrible cliché: that I loved my partner dearly but was not in love with him. My ex-boyfriend’s belongings are still haphazardly strewn throughout the apartment in […]
In a society that tells us to hate our partners’ exes, this friendship is an oddity. After the first few months of dating, we become entirely enamored with our significant other. We can comfortably begin to shed the masks that we wore just to make a good impression. Soon enough, however, past relationships inevitably cast […]
