Stuck living on Good Friday.

This is the first time in my entire life that I didn’t feel joyful on Easter, just a deep and echoing grief. You see, I haven’t made it to the “triumphant resurrection” part of Easter yet in my life. I’m stuck on Good Friday. On death. Part of me died last year. Maybe it was the […]

Say Goodnight to the Bad Guy: Life Lessons from Scarface (really.)

While Scarface is probably THE least likely place to get a life lesson other than “Don’t do any of these things ever,” not going to lie, I was totally moved by one scene in particular.

What Even Is Happiness?

This summer, I’ve been obsessed with the idea of happiness. The concept keeps obnoxiously resurfacing in my life, like a fly you could’ve sworn you swatted away. My problem with happiness is that sometimes, deep down, I really don’t think I’ll ever be happy. That it’s unattainable–not for everyone, just for me. Can ambition ever yield happiness? […]

Sexual Objectification Feels A Lot Like Betrayal

If you’re a woman, you experience a lot of “first”s unique to womanhood. First bra, first time wearing makeup (and the inevitable blue eyeshadow phase), first time babysitting. The list goes on and on. However, there’s a first every woman experiences, yet isn’t met with the cheery stories of weird mascara trends or training bra […]

Don’t be THAT guy at weddings:

For the last five years of my young adult life, not a weekend has passed without news of a engagement or wedding. And don’t be fooled–even once a wedding has passed, you will still see visible traces of that event for months to come, like a virtual bread crumb trail of acute narcissism. Oh, it’s […]

That One Time I Auditioned for A Musical…

Originally Written March 2015. And yes, this all actually happened. When I’m nervous about something, I have a few tricks that I do to calm myself down–basically, I just sit in my car and talk to myself in my dashboard mirror like a militantly upbeat life coach. I might even be able to out self-talk […]

Don’t Feed the Feelings

So, maybe I’m just like a walking Hallmark card generator (thank you, advertising degree), but as previously established last week in this ever-growing “LIFE, man” series (title pending), being an adult is super hard sometimes. And when the going gets tough, the tough/me make up a ton of motivational sayings to help them survive. Don’t […]

Full Time Jobs: NOT WHAT I EXPECTED

College didn’t prepare me for how a full time job would be; honestly, “The Office” has been more handy in figuring out workplace situations than my “Please submit a PAPER portfolio because we’re all in denial that the Internet is a thing” internship seminar class in college. And don’t get me wrong–I’m extremely, abundantly fortune […]

What “Serial” Taught Me About Break Ups

“Serial” relationship lesson #56: don’t murder (or potentially murder?) your ex

Christians, I Judged You.

When you rallied behind syllogisms rather than Scripture, I judged you. When I saw the hurtful things you wrote about depression & suicide, I judged you. When you refused to love people different than you, preferring stereotypes to relationships, I judged you. When you made ignorant political comments under the name of Jesus, I judged […]