Author: Lara
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The perils of traveling with other people can really start to add up. You blink and you end up spending two hours at a museum staring at questionable art or paying $15 for a crappy BLT somewhere you didn’t even want to eat. And then there’s the scheduling gymnastics it takes to coordinate a weekend…
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I’m in my last semester of college. “Leave (Get Out)” by JoJo is the earworm of the moment. About 40% of businesses report having no plan for preventing workplace violence this year. A few months ago a guy I used to almost date threw stuff at my head when I tried to leave his apartment.…
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It’s the final day of my tenure in London. I changed my ticket to stay an extra four days because I can’t bear to leave. In reality it’s just a bit sad now that my friends are all gone and in retrospect I should have kept my original fare; I would have been able to…
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You’ll be settling in to watch something on Netflix and cursing your parents’ auxiliary cable setup. When the bad thing begins you’re distracted by a non-crisis, like a cat getting its tail caught in a fan just as it pouts over a half-empty bowl of kibble. Life’s sense of timing is nothing if not inspired…
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Another version of this post originally appeared on Quiet Revolution. I had a birthday recently. I received two thoughtful gifts from two dear friends and I was grateful. They were kind to remember my latest trip around the sun. But here’s the thing: I am a bad gift opener. Not in a “can’t find where…
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