Another day at the gym, another chance to fit in some resistance work. It was crowded on the floor, the weight rack reminding me of the produce shelves at Trader Joe’s Chelsea on Sunday evenings: picked over, plowed through, only a few choices left now that the...
It’s been two weeks in my new home across the country, and I’ve felt a shift happen. An actual, physical shift. In my body. It feels good. It sounds superficial and petty, but it’s not: the way I feel is directly linked to the way I carry myself in...
You know those hours, days, moments when everything seems to just click? Those times when all the shaky transitions, all the nights wondering what the f you’re really supposed to be doing with your life, all the instances in which you feel like too much or too...
When I was twelve, I read the book The Giver by Lois Lowry. A sort of Brave New World for the tween set, it’s about a confined society in which everything is Just So all the time. A society that’s been converted to “Sameness” – a plan...
“Is this something we still want to do?” I stared at him from across the table, oh-so-movie-perfectly as our apathetic diner waitress doled out our 6pm omelette and breakfast burrito. Two days and fourteen apartments later, round one of our search for the...
Maybe I’m generalizing, and maybe I’ve been watching too many reruns of Sex And The City and Golden Girls (#imarose), but I think at one point or another, we all fantasize about having a whole slew of girlfriends to call up any time, anywhere. Not just any...
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