I’m not scared to move to New York. I’m just a little confused. Compared to anywhere else I have lived, New York is breathtakingly, mind-numbingly massive. It’s like watching a newborn child for a few hours compared to interacting with Shaq. The newborn sleeps peacefully, blissfully, until it’s time to be fed; and then, you […]

I have always really liked listening to DJs on the radio. The ones who talk much more than they play music and have obnoxious laughs that bubble through the speakers and who are generally disliked by their listening audiences. I was listening to one such afternoon program on Tuesday. Between songs or, more likely, commercials, […]

My boyfriend once told me that he’d break up with me if I ever became a vegetarian. This was not a carnivorous admission of a meat-free phobia, nor was it a revealing statement that opened the windows into the mind of a strange diet-tyrant. It was actually an indicator of my embarrassingly exuberant love of […]

In my persistent and very dedicated search for the perfect bite of chocolate, I’ve found only one constant: the brownie. Nearly every brownie holds a delicious bite of chocolate and sugar that is craved in the dead of winter when you can put hot chocolate sauce on top or when pulled, sun-warmed, from a picnic […]

When I was 15, my dad gave me my first Hemingway book saying, “He made me realize writing doesn’t need to be fancy. It can be simple and be good.” Like my father, I fell in love with Hemingway’s journalistic style of writing. Without auxiliary language, Hemingway constructed a clean novel. The simplicity of his […]

I recently decided I wanted to start crafting. I’m not the crafty sort, although when I modge podged together strange collages as a child, always searching through magazines for the elusive “z” so my name could be included amongst the bizarre assortment of funny animals, semi-fashionable outfits, and heads of ‘90s pop icons (J.C. Chasez, […]