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This past week was move-in time for the freshmen at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie-Mellon. If there was a resounding cry uttered from the lips of Pittsburghers it was “AVOID OAKLAND“, the neighborhood of both schools, which was a mad house of freshmen, their parents, and everything these 18-year-olds owned, including a few ponies [...]

In case you missed it by either sleeping the week away or avoiding internet news all together, the cover story from the New York Times Magazine was a pretty big hot topic, in that it was at the top of the most-emailed list for days and has been the subject of numerous articles since- What [...]

In addition to my grey hair, another thing I’ve learned to make peace with is the fact that not everyone who meets me will like me. That may sound a little weird or not that big of a deal to you. Maybe one day the fact hit you and you just went back to whatever [...]

I’m going to get through this entire blog post without using the q-word. Just you watch. First: I hate, hate, hate that this stresses me out. I honestly do. I feel like such a fucking cliche. Just another educated middle-class kid who doesn’t know what to do with her life. Trust me, the irony of [...]

Of course I’m afraid of choking alone in my apartment, the plane I’m on crashing, and getting a scary disease diagnosis like any other person. Those are Big Fears that keep people up at night. This list is more of the little things that I encounter or think about that give me the willies but [...]

I mentioned in a previous blog post that I’ve been out of college for three years. So, so, so much of my life has changed, possibly even more so than I thought it would, and it’s shaped me and my writing. While you could go back through these three years of archives to see this [...]

I technically began 2010 by projectile vomiting. However, I’m personally don’t consider the day finished until I go fall asleep, clock or calendar be damned. So I think of my upchucking as a form of cleansing from the previous year, especially as I began that one by throwing up. I ended it the same way [...]

Watching Obama’s speech tonight on the war in Afghanistan reminded me of how I thought I’d handle conflicts as a kid. I’ve never had an political aspirations, but once I thought I knew the secret to being the President: never go to war. Instead, I decided, if the country would ever be attacked, we would [...]

Jalapeno peppers from the farmers market are ten billion times spicier than the ones at the grocery store, in case you were wondering. Something in the Pittsburgh water must up the spice ante because HOLY SHIT ONMSLDFKJSLJE@)(;akjslkdfj;laksjdf PAIN. I won’t go into detail, but it involves burning lips, a runny nose and an eye so [...]

There are tributes all over the place this week for the 40th anniversary of Woodstock. I really could not care less. This wouldn’t be noteworthy if I wasn’t obsessed with Woodstock and the ’60s well into college. And now, it’s nothing. I’m not really sure how it started (I suspect the movie Forrest Gump), but [...]