So I was 21 and a little bit drunk and very barefoot, wearing a dress and lying on the turf of the football field holding hands with a friend- with our backs on
I saw something out of my nightmares today. It was a giant pink poodle, about the height of a building and as wide as a school bus. It was fluffy and vaguely the
I feel like there isn’t anything I can write today that won’t slowly dissolve in to cliché. Thanksgiving is a sentimental holiday, and I am a sentimental person- as is probably evidently clear
Not everything always fits together the way you would imagine it should. Early this summer my dad came to pick me up from staff orientation at the summer camp I work at, to
The first time I really heard anything about Presidential turkey pardoning I was in 9th grade and watching The West Wing. There is a fabulous episode somewhere in season two where CJ- who
My family has about 8 menorahs. There is the large silver one that we all light together, the baseball bat one that belongs to my brother, the set of chairs in a row
My high school was located right down the road from the Maryland Renascence Festival. This means that dudes in suits of amour, jousting, and very drunk middle aged women in corsets leaving fairly
My parents are very bad at naming children. This isn’t to say that I don’t like my name, or that I don’t like my brother’s name, but it is to say that my
We all have to start somewhere. Every adventure, every journey, every book, every job, every meal, every movie, every walk, has to begin with something. My college experience began in the basement of
I’m not what you would call an animal person. Cats and dogs kinda freak me out, and Petsmart sounds more like a haunted house then a place where I want to spend any
I’m no stranger to romanticizing places. Those who know me- even just a little bit- know that the summer camp I attended and now work at holds a place in my heart reserved
My friends and I used to joke that there should be a room on campus where you can just go and yell until you can't yell anymore or until you've forgotten why you
“There are some people in the world who say that writing stories, or composing music or dancing sparkly dances is easy for them. Nothing interferes with their ability to create. While I celebrate