The Relationship Between Fear and Your Personality Type

The Relationship Between Fear and Your Personality Type

Interestingly enough, there is some science behind it. It’s long been known that oxytocin is the neurohypophysial…

Here Comes the Night

Death in the 60s

Lorenzo went first. A brain tumor, surgery, and then what looked like a full recovery. The last time I saw him, we joked and made plans. A month later, he was gone.

13 lessons I learnt in 2013

All of life is but a vast forgiveness

1. Do not plant hope…

A Radical Plan to Improve Real Human Interaction 

With real-life examples from college life and…

If I can’t wear it, spend it or eat it, I don’t want it. 

Learning to live with less. 

I’ve Had Enough Small Talk

It’s not that I’m bad at it. I have no trouble filling the air with predictable assessments of today’s weather…

I’m A Girl Who Reads and Writes. Here’s What You Should Know About Dating Me

So yes, find a girl who reads and writes, but then take the time to find out why.

On Forgiveness and Forgetting

They don’t always go hand in hand. 

It’s Morning in Pittsburgh

Why I am optimistic about the future of Pittsburgh

Hair Me Out: Going Bald Is On My Bucket List

I have had “going bald” on my bucket list for quite a long time, right alongside…

I Want to Look Like Gabourey Sidibe

Like most people, I discovered Gabourey Sidibe after being mesmerized by her performance in 2009’s Precious, a film that inspired an emotional riot in all who beheld it. Actress Joan Cusack had cautioned her before she landed the coveted role about the debilitating…

Be The Dumbest Person In The Room

Why Redbeacon Was More Valuable To Me Than College

Growing up I prided myself on being smart. I learned to read relatively early, excelled at math as a child, and passed enough AP tests in high school to enter…

This Woman Took Your Picture…From Saturn

Planetary scientist Carolyn Porco on the Cassini spacecraft…

Change up your writing method.

“A change of work is the best rest.” — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle