A Video About Guilt Wherein I Tell It To F*ck Off.
Eff Guilt. With my dirty hair, bad lighting, no makeup, and a big ass glass of wine, I send you a video I did on one take. Because that’s how I’m rolling right now. Free. Or, as my friend Kathleen...
View ArticleI Like This Picture of My Cellulite: A 19 Year Old’s Journey To Self-Acceptance.
Dear Readers, Jen Pastiloff here. The post below was written by a 19 year old student. I love that I have teens following the site! I am developing a series for young writers to express themselves to...
View ArticleWhat’s in a Name?
By Antonia Malchik My friends call me Nia. Since I left college and people started calling me by my legal name, the one my mother chose because her favorite book at the time I was born (so the story...
View ArticleStuff.
By T. Chick McClure I’ve lost access to my mom behind an ever-expanding tsunami of STUFF. She is a collector of things. But, not for curio cabinets. My mother lives inside a mountain of trash, dogs,...
View ArticleIt’s Worse Than You Think…
By Jen Pastiloff. It’s worse than you think… they’re not thinking of you at all… I asked this recently on social media: Do you equate your business with worthiness? Do you find the need to tell...
View ArticleThe Other Plastic Surgery.
By Sara Bir. There’s a face I’m sick of seeing, and it’s not the rearranged mess of a scandalized Hollywood star. It’s a face I confront in every reflective surface—the bathroom mirror, the screen of...
View ArticleHere’s What The F*ck I Am Going To Do About It.
By Jen Pastiloff. For Lidia Yuknavitch, my teacher, my heart sister, my friend. I haven’t blogged in a while so here I am. Hi, hello, hi. I’m in Los Angeles, here at home for a few days before I hit...
View ArticleThe Coming Out Post
By Renée Greiner. I wanted this to be eloquent and researched with facts and figures to legitimize my pain. I wanted a weekend of three days to write this post to y’all but it can’t wait any longer....
View ArticleWhen Girls Make Noise
By Kari O’Driscoll “Do they make noise when you walk?” my 16-year old daughter stands next to me in the shoe store. She and her sister are my fashion experts. I never buy a pair of boots or a purse...
View ArticleEulogy For an Aging Book Guy
By Timothy Eberle I’m thinking about giving up my identity as a “book guy.” (Which doesn’t mean that I’m giving up on reading per se; simply that I’m considering no longer so aggressively inserting...
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