We all fawned over Blair calling out to Chuck in season 2, episode 1 of Gossip Girl: Three words, eight letters, say it and I’m …
Does Romantic Love Have an Expiration Date?
When asking my friends and family this question, the overwhelming answer was at first ‘sometimes yes, sometimes no’. Then when I pressed them to answer …
Wow – You can afford love?
Love is a universal feeling shared by all, known to all and felt by all – good and bad. I feel safe in assuming that …
Alone but not Lonely- A Beginner’s Manual to Finding Some Truth in Self Help
The phrase I have learned to repeat to myself after years of having access to Positivity Instagram, Pinterest, and (typical Karen) “live, laugh, love” iconography …
Why I’m Grateful For My Ex
Did you know that when you go through a tough breakup, you can actually go through the Kübler-Ross five stages of grief? Denial, anger, bargaining, …
On Our Strange Relationship with Tragedy.
When, in April of 1986 near the Ukrainian city of Pripyat, the No. 4 nuclear reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant shutdown, life and …
Go Back to Where You Came From- Why Being Bilingual is Weird
People tend to ask me whether I think in English or in Spanish quite frequently, and having spoken (and heard) both since I was a …
Linguistic Loneliness
I am writing this and you will understand what it says. That is, of course, if you know how to speak and read English. I …
Fate vs Flux in The Modern World
Life is an odd meandering river of time, something that takes unexpected turns and twists and yet can also recoil back and return to the …
Thinking Beyond Dichotomies- The Toxic Nature of Limitation
Britney Spears shares a bit of wisdom at the beginning of her song “Circus” with her listening audience- there are two kinds of people, those …