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Freshman year, I joined an after-school writer’s club, and even had a poem published in the school literary magazine. It wasn’t bad. But I told my mother, that year and many to follow, that yes I liked to write, but “I’m not a ‘real’ writer.” My best friend, on the other hand, now she was…

In just about every episode of The Golden Girls, someone rings the doorbell. What’s on the other side of the door looks like the opening line of a joke: There may be a priest, a rabbi, a girl scout, a cross-dressing baseball player, a police officer, a stripper dressed as a police officer, someone who’s…

When I turned 13, my mother bought me a set of makeup from Clinique: a bottle of flesh-colored foundation; blush that came in a green marbled compact with a tiny brush; a mirrored box that slid out to reveal a tray of neutral eyeshadows in varying shades of brown; a subtle semi-gloss lipstick in a…

I always loved a good side hustle-even before it was a thing. It’s all about finding what you enjoy doing, for some people, buying Zipmex Bitcoin and investing in their future is a key element of a side hustle, it can help add to their portfolio, and turn it into more than just a hobby.…

“If you spoke to your friends the way you speak to me, you wouldn’t have any friends.” My mother is washing and drying the Corningware, sliding it back into its drawer, the lids  making that rattling Corningware sound (a sound unmistakable from any other). The counters are wiped down, and a half empty box of…

There are two good reasons to sign up for self defense: Because you’ve had your boundaries crossed before, or because you’re afraid they’re about to be. Chances are, both things are true. I have never been mugged on a dark street corner or raped or beaten. I had been kissed and pushed and pressed. I’d…

If you’re like many women, you pride yourself on setting other people at ease. On making clients, colleagues, partners, friends, children feel comfortable, making them feel heard, smoothing over any awkward bits or hiccups of tension. But when you prioritize everyone’s comfort a lot of other work doesn’t get done. Namely, yours. If there’s one…

When I was 32 years old I got sick. It wasn’t flu sick, and it wasn’t cancer sick; it was the kind of sick that strikes like lightning and nearly kills you on the spot with no advance warning whatsoever. I was on a business trip to a conference in Baltimore, and had become increasingly…

I couldn’t imagine why anyone would want to hire me. So I not only didn’t apply for promising jobs senior year of college; I didn’t apply to any jobs. Not one. While my fellow seniors were trotting off to the career center for this or that interview, I trudged back to my dorm room, as…

One of the perks of attending a private catholic, all-girls high school is that the bus picks you up at your front door. It’s a short bus, but a bus nonetheless. The driver is Medrell, a large, tough woman whose ample rear hangs over the edge of the seat and who doesn’t wait around for…