Young Adults

I’ve learned to attribute many of the good outcomes in my life to luck. Of course, it’s some luck and mostly hard work, but I’ve learned as a working class college student at an elite school, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Transitioning from one job to another is never an easy time in a person’s life. That is certainly true for students like myself who change jobs in high school or college. Recently, I left my job [...]

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 [...]

We each have our own belief systems that help govern our lives. These belief systems – and the actions that support them – are often crafted in childhood. What starts as survival [...]

How much would you pay for your teen to be able to thrive emotionally? Ten thousand dollars? Your entire IRA? Turns out all the money in the world may not be enough to protect your most prized [...]

All of us have heard it in the movies : “TWO CHRISTMASES!!!” The expression that young children belt out when they first hear of their parents splitting. Joking aside, undergoing a divorce is a [...]