Anthony Bourdain, Kate Spade and Inés Zorreguieta (younger sister to Queen Máxima of the Netherlands), three high-profile suicides occurred in the span of one week. The internet has been abuzz about suicide awareness/prevention and mental health in the United States. People have continued to tweet

I know you never got to read my writing and you wanted to.  You were so proud of anything I did and right now this is the only thing I can do, write about you and write about what Im going through now that you’re gone. Sleeping builds a wall between this ocean of pain and me but the exact moment

Your senior year of college can be the most exciting and terrifying stages in a person’s life. Preparing for the real world is stressful — but having three family members pass within four months can take make even the most stoic person lose their mind. My comedian uncle, my ... Continue reading

I was 18 when I found out I was pregnant. Five weeks prior, I was raped by my then-boyfriend and, in my determination to forget what had happened, forgot to get emergency contraception. I missed a period and then bought some pregnancy tests, which I took on my lunch break from college in a ...

In the middle of Los Angeles, California there is an area called the La Brea Tar Pits, where asphalt and crude oil seep up to form pools on the surface of the ground. There’s a museum nearby where you can view the fossilized remains of animals, from beetles to mastodons, that became stuck in the