Jewelry, the ornaments you wear. With every ring, necklace, earring or bracelet that you drape off your body you choose to further extend a piece of yourself, a piece that glitters, or catches the eye of another,...
If you were to take a minute to look up “movies about the 2008 recession”, the search results will probably seem typical for the subject; documentaries or “based on a true story” fiction films about the Wall Stre...
When Daniela Rivero and Brontë Cook began recording “In Between” in May 2018, they had no idea what it would become. All they had was a simple idea: they wanted to talk to people about their lives, their passions...
1 Being born in 1998, I consider myself at the end of the 90’s generation - not that I can remember much of it. I was lucky though because the memories I do have are of the pop culture and my experiences growing...
The first time I remember carefully watching my food intake was when I was 10 years old. I was in fifth grade, and I started to create a list of foods I was not allowed to eat. It was starting to get so long I sc...
Growth: scientifically known as “the process of increasing in physical size.” We know growth as the way the trees grow. The way plants grow. The way flowers grow. I grow too, but not quite as fast, at least not q...
The whole concept that life is continuously changing is something I always knew. From middle school awkward stages, to my rebellious teenage years, to my forward-facing college years, to then later becoming a res...
I recently listened to a podcast where the hosts interviewed a number of people from different stages of life: a 20-year-old, a 40-year old, a 60-year old and so on. Each were asked the same questions: Do you fee...
Back in the winter of 2017, pancreas-related surgery complications left me reliant on IV-fluids, unable to eat real food of any kind for 7 weeks straight. One year ago, I wrote a personal essay about that experie...
In 2007’s Lars and the Real Girl, the titular Lars (Ryan Gosling), asks his brother Gus (Paul Schneider) when his brother knew he was a man. Gus can’t exactly figure out an answer, having trouble recalling a mome...
I’m gonna just say it, breakups SUCK. Especially when it’s your first real relationship. Sure, I had a three-month-long high school fling, but nothing can really compare to your first love. Going through my first...
The last year of my life has really been one uphill climb after another. It has taught me a lot, but the most important lesson I’ve learned is that my life only belongs to me, so I better do everything in...
