I loved my co-workers (mostly), but my job as Toxics Campaign Scientist at Greenpeace wasn’t working for me—no sooner than I walked in the office, was I itching to walk …

You’d think that getting sores in my nose would be enough to stop me from eating unsalted roasted peanuts, but no—I eat them, regret it, and do it again another …

In college, I was inadvertently a jerk toward someone in my writing class. She described feeling “happy” in an essay, and I wondered aloud whether she might have used a …

A friend once told me that she wouldn’t feel guilty about behaviors that she knew she wouldn’t stop; I got to a point on my spiritual journey where I settled …

I got a message from someone saying that my blog posts turned her off. The reasons, as I gathered from what I read, were that I talked down about myself …

There have been two periods in my life when I was so stressed out that I worried about getting Bell’s Palsy (paralysis of one side of the face), just like …

I saw a USPS mail carrier—wearing government-issued shorts—doing her rounds while I was taking my daily power walk. Damn, I thought passing her on the sidewalk, she has some nice …

My man Jeff and I took a three-day scouting trip to Greenville before I decided to move there. We stayed at the Poinsette Hotel downtown, whose zip code I plugged …

“What do you think you need?” When my father asked me the question, he was asking how much money I thought I needed to move so that he could help …