Posts under ‘On Being A Girl’

Found: Old condoms in my retainer case. I was a clever kid.

1 – Date someone you can really talk to Once I dated someone who made me feel like I could die as long as the last thing I did was talk to him, and the world would be a good, righteous place. Then he broke up with me because he couldn’t stand the sound of [...]

My friend Arwen and I had an interesting conversation this week over brunch. No, it was not about Adam Levine. Sorry to get your hopes up. Certain recent events have lead the both of us to consider the evil poison that some people are born with. The Poison might be a little hard to explain, [...]

The first cassette tape I ever purchased was a Simpsons soundtrack. I don’t remember where I got the money or what on earth could’ve compelled me to spend it on music from a cartoon I didn’t even regularly watch, but I don’t suppose things like that really have to add up to a nine year [...]

I’ve been meaning to write this post for several weeks now, but it’s just such a beast of an entry that I reverted to my four-year-old self and have been sitting in a corner playing with toys, pretending not to hear my laptop calling and ignoring life almost altogether. Then I made the realization –well, [...]