It’s been a week since my mom passed away at home. The whole ordeal was a blur, waking up to see her still sleeping but no longer breathing, calling all the right people to take care of a body, consoling my dad who just lost his wife, calling my mom’s…

Have no time and no energy to do anything for yourself? Neither do I! Eating is easy, but figuring out what to eat and actually making it is hard, especially when you’re at work most of the day and spend your nights pretty busy (for me it was at open mics and improv practice, etc.). That’s why for the past few years I got…

She’s purple — and she’s a little different! — Sure, I’ve always loved an M&M — especially the mini ones — but the controversy earlier this year about the de-sexification of Ms. Green M&M earlier this year has really made me think a lot about the entire M&M advertising universe. It’s gotten so bad that my roommate even got…

If you haven’t heard yet, I am single. I am so single that I have never not been single. I am so single that I’ve reached that point in my life where I had nothing better to do than to go through the shed in the back of my parents’…

So many holiday movies are the same, about a woman from the city coming back to her hometown, finding love, and finding the true meaning of Christmas. That’s all fine and good, but what if we got literally anything else? Here I’ve made a short list of some movies that…

Do you feel that in the air? Is that the first breeze of autumn, and also the sun going into the sign of Libra? What does this mean for you? Well, this should be the time where things go into balance, since Libra’s whole thing is scales. But unfortunately for…

Is this just a memory of an old Christmas movie or an actual living nightmare? — It started as just a regular old bout of sleep paralysis. I was unable to move and my eyes wandered over to the corner of my room, where I would usually see a tall, shadowy figure standing there, staring at me. His name is Jerry; he’s an old friend of…

Feel that burning? Is that a climate crisis going on or is it just the sun just in Leo now? That’s right, the sad girl portion of summer is over and hot girl summer can officially begin! Thank the planets because I personally just got my heart broken and I…

There are a lot of public places to cry at in the Loop, but they are not made the same. — Millennium Park On one hand, it’s a bit of a weird place to cry at because there are a lot of tourists going to see the Bean, and they would rather not also have to look at a crying office worker in their mid-20’s. On the other hand, the scenery is…