I fell out of love with ballet sometime in between the time a professor called me the most disrespectful person she’d ever met and when I dislocated an elbow during a dress rehearsal. Seeing one’s joint bend five degrees in the wrong direction should elicit some sort of anguish, maybe…

In college, one of my best friends burned her esophagus by dry-swallowing a bunch of Advil. It took her a few days to figure out what had happened — we were ballet majors, accustomed to weird kinds of pain and inordinate amounts of anti-inflammatories. She was barely able to speak…

Unless you live under a literal rock, you’ve witnessed the world tilt on its axis in a matter of months. COVID-19 seized the globe and shook it hard. The pandemic has destroyed lives and economies, and has deeply rattled our collective consciousness. We now face minor inconveniences, like gym closures…

( For context, listen to this masterpiece before you read and CRY!) When you’re angsty as all hell, uncomfortably broke and still having breakouts, life hands you the most influential figures in your life, for better or for worse: your friends. These people mold you far before the frontal lobe…

In June, while riding the high of college graduation and a job contract (yes, you ARE employable with an English degree), I mouthed off to my handful of Twitter followers: “I’m starting a blog!” Now, it’s nearly Halloween and nothing is spookier than revisiting the six-plus unfinished drafts of utter…