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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, [...]

Prior to writing this post, I searched the word “procrastination” on Google and found about 13,600,000 results. That tells me that you are certainly not alone if you have [...]

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 [...]

I create a Bucket List to overcome fears, to push myself past my self-imposed limitations, to soak up all that life has in store, with intention towards what I want to attract and learn.  I [...]

Where: Starbucks, fourth table from the right. When: 8:50 a.m. Sunday September 14, 2014 Who: Gabrielle (myself. 20, woman, white, queer, middle/upper-class, able-bodied) & Stranger (50-60 [...]

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 [...]

It’s that time of year again. The duffle bags are stuffed to over-capacity, the family van is filled to the point of invisibility, and shopping carts are filled with hundreds of dollars of school [...]

I began distance running during the early months of 2014 on a treadmill at my college gym because I was experiencing, what I coin, “my first grown-up heartbreak”. In shabby workout shorts and an [...]