Life, from start to finish, is a collaborative endeavor. At the university in Boston where I teach, we’ve entered the period of the academic year that I call The Panic. As April dovetails into May, nary an hour passes without an email from a student in need. They need extensions. They need extra credit. They […]
Whatever we are scared of—fucking up or having more to lose; free falling or feeling trapped—we have to get cozy inside the discomfort. Without incessantly fixing everything or requiring tangible proof at every step. I am standing in a long, white hallway. Brightly lit doors line both sides unmarked. Institutional and The Shining-like, maybe 20 lie […]
Adulthood, as it’s taught to us, is a construct, and we can tear it down and reconstruct it ourselves, to make not one other version, but one million others. Earlier today, I was doing some aggressive scheming about how to get to see Taylor Swift in concert. It went something like, “I can’t do that. […]
As 20-somethings, we’ve been led to believe that adulthood works a certain way, and that it has a timeframe that must be followed. If you’re not able to follow that timeframe, you’re a failure. When I graduated college in 2009, I had a plan. I would move back home and live with my mom until […]
