I work out in my apartment gym at the same time every weekday morning, and I use a balance ball for my various routines almost every day....

PT. 1 My coworker who got a new job gifted me an aquarium with a snail in it. I was like, “Okay, sweet, I just gotta keep this snail...

“You’re even pretty when you cry.” She let it escape softly and slowly, like a scientist making observations under her breath in a lab....

February 22nd, 2018: My besties and me, sipping margaritas, checking out a group of dudes. They keep looking over at us, we’re looking...

A couple months ago I was walking at night to meet my cousin who was flying in to visit, when a man leapt from his car, leaving it in the...

Dear Clementine, I’m sure you know that your mother is the ultimate badass and an idol to her students. She's basically a Beatle and...

April 25, 2017: Beef bones are VERY popular. People want them for broth and they want them to give to their dogs. A lot. People also...

I was mindfully groomed to blindly assume, that your kind words were true. It was our common ground that brought us down, we both only...

I pour it out. I lay down in it, I curl up in it, I fall asleep in it, I wake up in it. I let myself get soaked. I feel myself filling...

Alright. So I know I somewhat violently heaved all of the pain from my body and onto your newsfeeds a couple of months ago. As I told my...

I've had a lot of people over the years express surprise that I could be unhappy. Which is ludicrous. So I don't know if I can explain...

January 5th, 2017, Day 77: (The customers think I am someone who knows something about meat. I am still someone who knows nothing about...

My dad only has one arm. "He was born that way," I've had to say to hundreds of people throughout my life. Yet, he's spent his entire...

When I was born, our beautiful golden retriever, Sandy, was the taken-for-granted, furry cornerstone of my life. I crawled all over and...

After a terrifying, awful seizure two days ago, it was determined that my dog Sadie has a brain tumor. A brain tumor that is keeping her...

(This is a piece I wrote for the beginning of my oral history documentary in 2013) Oral history is the oldest form of human record....

I My mother tells me that I was being ogled by men by the time I was four years old. I was a very active child, so I had good musculature...

I cannot express how deeply I feel the ache in every one of my bones from 27 years of worrying about how the world perceives my body. I...

I just wrote "eat pizza" on my To-Do List so I could scratch something off... March 25th 2013: When I was little, I was consistently one...

July 1st 2015: Today we had to put down my 21-year-old cat. I picked her out of the litter when I was five years old. I chose her for her...