Most importantly: I embraced crop top freedom. Another year has come and gone, and I have to admit that 2018 was amazing. With 2017 being...

I’m really growing into this host position. Please, come to our house so I can feed you. After ten minutes out in the fresh air this...

It’s only an adventure if I have to get on a bus. It’s been a while. Life has this strange habit of going fast and slow all at once, a...

I can’t believe that I’ve actually had 10 pieces accepted this year. After setting the goal for myself at the end of July, I never...

This is what it’s like to eat sunshine. I finally come to terms with my self-inflicted solitude over a tartlette citron (which I’m pretty...

Not going to lie, this seems like a viable career option. I start the day later than expected, but this is understandable when one...

Look at this beauty. Again I ask: What could possibly go wrong? I love it when things work out. A few days ago a German woman and I made...

Sometimes the most beautiful sights are the ones right outside your own door — a Belleville belvedere. Today begins with success: waking...

Look at this beautiful building I don’t go in because of the heinous amount of people. The day again starts abnormally late, even after ...

Late morning walks help you forget the hangover. One of the things they don’t tell you about international travel: You should not drink...

The journey to the airport isn’t as dramatic as I expect it to be, which is disconcerting. My big ass backpack and I catch all of the...

We will begin  by saying that I don’t want to go to Paris. It’s for a lot of reasons, both practical and anxiety-related. Why am I...

When I was growing up, I had no idea that people traveled in August. Where I’m from, vacations happen in June and people spend their time...

A Year Drowning in Ladybugs Aphids are laying eggs underneath my fingernails. I’m looking for ladybugs to eat them all up, fatted so I...

when i realized i’d never forgive you when i saw the trumpeter blow the horn, my jericho heart came down, moved from flesh to fluid. it...

Preview: Our Chaos With summer winding down to a close, it’s easy to get behind on important things: chores, paperwork, meeting up with...

A Love Poem for Cary Grant (the name I gave my depression) I tell my friend I think about suicide every night, the thought a pillow mint...

This week has been one of those “When it rains, it pours” sort of situations. After a submission frenzy earlier this month, two of my...

Exciting news, everyone. My poem “Rule of Nines” has recently been published by the gracious team at The Indianapolis Review. Please,...

Redistribution Your head is a Lazy Susan spinning busy, out of control like the wheels of time grinding you down. Are you feeling a...