yesterday, on my flight back to chicago from atlanta, i was mysteriously bumped to first class, for no reason at all that i could...

you know, there are few things in this world that i am unequivocally sure of. what adult life has taught me so far is i don’t know...

i wasn’t cool in high school. i’m sure that’s not surprising to any of you. i mean, i was okay? i had friends. people liked me. but i...

when i was A Teen, i went to fiji for like ... 5 weeks. my stepfather paid for the trip as a high school graduation present, and it was a...

as a high school freshman, i was in love with a senior boy. his name was something like, but not exactly, harry. my high school did have...

until the fourth grade, i lived with my dad, brother and sister in gentle suburban massachusetts where i could ride my bike to school. my...

growing up, for the most part, i really liked school and didn’t mind getting up in the morning to attend it. which is not to say that...

dear neighbor, who, for the purposes of this letter, will be named todd, listen. i know i eat a lot of takeout. maybe, arguably, i eat...

day 1 look it's fine or whatever but someone needs to track down jetlag and punch it right in the face. i can't handle it. i consider...

some people find love! and some people are just trash monsters forever. The Most Beautiful Man In The World lives in my building. i don’t...

i really love wine. the thing you have to know about me is that fundamentally, to my core, the only thing i really want out of life is to...

believe it or not, "trashbag" is a compliment. OKAY SO THE THING ABOUT TRASHBAG DONUTS IS: i worked at a camp for kids the summer that I...

contrary to what i feel like might be popular belief, i didn’t get up to too many hijinks in high school. i mean, i was in our version of...

i have always had a somewhat tenuous relationship with fire. when i was in argentina i did a homestay and my housemom, MonMons (real name...

in hindsight, honestly, i'm MORE surprised it didn't happen sooner. back when i lived with my dad, until i was 10 or so, we used to go...

i don't know a LOT about robbery but i DO know that you should go into it with a gameplan. so when i was studying in argentina, it was...

this isn't really a "story" so much as a "PSA about email safety." when i was in undergrad i wrote my thesis on translations of...

i'm sorry, paul. DISCLAIMER: i have no memory of this story. this is just a story that has been told to me SO MANY TIMES that quite...

life on the farm is weird and has gone a long way toward preparing me for the weirdness that is adult life. so something that you have to...

she was stone cold. the woman has ice in her veins. around christmastime a few years ago—let’s say 5 years? maybe 6? i don’t know, some...