Embroidery Floss as a Spiritual Revelation
If I begin practicing grannyhood now, by the time I’m a granny I’ll have sixty years of experience at it, so I’ll be a really good one.
Ugly Girl Rep
Did she just say she wants to be felt up when she’s drunk at the club?
Top Five Things You Will Experience Pressure To Do in Your Twenties
If I say I’m bored and/or looking to make new friends, someone’s gotta come up with, “Just join a run club.”
Do Kids Still Make Leaf Collections?
I miss when attention to the world around us, and wonder over the beauty of the earth, was our assignment.
An Open Letter to My Four-Year Apartment
I promise to keep trying to leave room on the walls and shelves for new things, even if that means taking some old things down.
The Wedding Guest User Guide
Weddings are about people coming together, and that’s not limited to the people tying the knot.
Goodbye and Hello
So another tpc cycle begins anew: a new editorial board, new regular writers.
The Milk
I feel so incredibly loved to have people who will miss me like this; I feel so incredibly remorseful to know that my move will hurt them. I don’t tell them that milk makes me sad.
The Hedgehog of Shame
Sometimes I’d do anything to get away from the frightening ambiguous emotional mass I feel.
Learning to Create From My Past Self
We came up with a strategy to try to get me to write faster, which was to play the Macklemore song “Can’t Hold Us” on loop until I was done.
