The Simple Things by Chris Murray

As a senior in college, everyday is a constant game of “who’s going to ask me what I want to be when I grow up today?” The answers I rattle off are routine now, but the answers I want to give are [...]

We might be saving light this time of year, but for many people we become increasingly aware of how we have to go about saving ourselves from the winter chill that sets in when you live in [...]

“Your Body Is A War Zone” My mother always told me I hurt because there are worlds inside of me waging wars with each other. Make sure you’re the leader of your own body, she [...]

Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about how to live more in the now. It seems that I am always looking ahead to the next thing, thinking about what I’m going to do next, what I need to get done, [...]

If you ask any college student what they miss most about home their answer will usually be either food or a pet. For me it’s my dog, Tilda. I Skype her when I’m sad, my mom sends me pictures of [...]

I’m in the throes of the most mundane decision masked as the biggest decision I’ll ever make. The emails in objection tell me they’d never let their daughters make the decision I’m tossing over [...]

I’ve lost old boyfriends to testosterone and dishonesty and incompatibility; we’re still too young to prioritize what feels right from what feels easy from hours of homework. We’re still too [...]

Often we’re told being selfish is bad. It’s disrespectful, shameful, and wrong. But we are all selfish. Every one of us. We act to serve ourselves. We eat what tastes good to us, befriend [...]

I remember my middle school years: my body standing with a steady sixty-two pounds from fifth grade through eighth when my smallness stopped its market cuteness and morphed into concern; the [...]

I step out of the Powell’s, an Oregonian bookshop, my new romance novel tucked neatly under my armpit; I look both ways before crossing the street to the kitty-cornered Starbucks. To my left she [...]