Eighteen-year-old Devi Bennett is surrounded by mysteries: her unknown heritage, a recurring dream about an African tribal ceremony, an inexplicable attachment to a certain tree and a psychic…
I am twenty years old, and I am lying on the beach in Italy. I’m here on scholarship for a five-week-long chamber music festival, and it is weekend…
On Facebook, I watch a video of my friend Ginger cheering on her little boy with classic motherly gusto: “Can you make it beep? Keep trying! Push the…
I’m playing Polly Pockets with my five-year-old, because I’m such an attentive and devoted mother. Just kidding, I’m playing on my phone while occasionally cramming a tiny doll…
Recently, I was in the awkward position (pun intended—you’ll get it soon) of not wanting to tell the Urgent Care doctor exactly how I injured myself. I mean,…
– By Stephanie Jankowski of When Crazy Meets Exhaustion. I was in seventh grade, having a hard time “finding myself” as I watched those around me submerge, never to be seen…