Gabrielle Kassell

It’s 10am on a Sunday; I’m sitting crossed-legged in jogger-pants on a stained beige couch in Starbucks and eagerly fingering the pages of my recent Powell’s purchase. Today the black and red [...]

I was born in Connecticut, which led to eighteen years in two towns in Connecticut before: a year in Pennsylvania, two years in Massachusetts, and I still have a year in Massachusetts to come. I [...]

After a year of upcoming-deadlines, lunch on-the-go, and messy roommates, the spring semester finally came to a close. Those of us who didn’t graduate either brought soft-tissues to graduation [...]

I have a confession: I am failing. The severity of 30 degree temperatures reminds me that February is landing, only five days away. And I am failing devastatingly; one of my New Years Resolutions [...]

“If winter comes, can spring be far behind?” -Percy Bysshe Shelley Second morning waking to the loathed music of winter: the hard shovel scrape as it delves into the iced-over snow and against [...]

Another year concludes with fancy hors d’oeuvres: brie-cheese and sodium-free tortilla chips, washed down by Prosecco and Smirnoff; Cheers! Hope tantalizes the threshold of 2015, the ball-drops, [...]

Nothing turns me on quiet like shared music taste. Nothing so devouring, so hot with sex(ual tension), nothing quiet as appealing. Nothing says ‘marry me’ quite like a mixtape exchange. Nothing [...]

It begins your Junior Year of college: Single Shaming. It’s that time when your relationship status is no longer a silly Facebook indicator or a reason bragging rights or a show of ‘how much ass’ [...]

During a impassioned and desperate conversation with a close teammate about why we’re twenty and single, I clumsily babbled off my favorite quote by Jaime Gil de Biedma, “I believed that I wanted [...]

Especially for those of us still measuring our lives in terms of the academic calendar, there is certain scent of renewal in the September air. Labor Day weekend is unanimously classified as the [...]